TEXAS — Firefly Aerospace released the moon landing video that was caught by its Blue Ghost lunar lander.


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On Tuesday, Texas-based company shared video of the landing of its 6.6-foot (2 meter) tall Blue Ghost as it touched down on the Mare Crisium (Latin for Sea of Crises), one of the dark patches on the northeastern part of the moon.

The successful landing took place early Sunday morning.

The Blue Ghost has 10 NASA payloads that will conduct experiments to learn more about the moon.

“Just in the last two days, our downlinked data increased from 27 GB to 57 GB, including critical science data. Surface operations performed so far include deploying Lunar PlanetVac and sampling lunar regolith, deploying the Electrodynamic Dust Shield and demonstrating dust mitigation, capturing images from SCALPSS, and continuing operations for the other payloads,” stated the company in a press release to the media.

This is the company’s first Ghost Riders in the Sky moon mission that was launched in mid-January.

It was a 45-day-journey for Blue Ghost to reach the moon. Once there, it orbited the silvery satellite for 16 days before touchdown.

Firefly Aerospace's payloads

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