Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode.
Goodnight friends.

Blue Ghost’s final message as it signs off from the Moon

#BlueGhost

Sunset Shadow

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures photo of its shadow on the Moon with the volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, visible on the top right side of the lunar surface.

Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qSwh2d

Out of this world footage captured from the Moon by the #BlueGhost lander during the solar eclipse.

Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qRZAUk

I've been busy reconstructing the landing profile of #BlueGhost from the amazing landing video.
Relative to the LRO NAC mosaic from Quickmap, my landing coordinate estimate is 18.56349°N, 61.80990°E

A Private #Space Mission Just Successfully Landed on the #Moon for the First Time

Firefly Aerospace’s #BlueGhost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.
#nasa #fireflyaerospace

https://www.wired.com/story/a-private-space-mission-has-successfully-landed-on-the-moon-for-the-first-time-blue-ghost-firefly-aerospace/

A U.S. company successfully landed its spacecraft on the moon Sunday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone — and the first to do so upright. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/02/world/private-us-spaceship-moon-landing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #firefly #blueghost #moon #nasa #artemis #fireflyaerospace

With the #BGM-1 lander from #FireflyAerospace now safely on the surface of the Moon, we've had some time to take a closer look at the @radiotelescoop 's observation of the #BGM-1 signal during the landing, which shows several events during the landing sequence. (Thanks to @tammojan and @telkamp for helping running the telescope today.)

The next month could see up to four (!) commercial launches to the #Moon (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon#Funded_and_are_under_development for a table) - and NASA just held a media telecon about one of them, #BlueGhost from #FireflyAerospace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VaA5-YLio = a recording, https://bsky.app/profile/genejm1017.bsky.social/post/3ldjg4eytm22c = a live thread.