NASA's dust shield successfully repels lunar regolith on moon

Images Reveal NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spotted a ‘Blue Ghost’ on the Moon

New images released by NASA have revealed the landing site of an American private aerospace company’s spacecraft during its recent ambitious mission to the lunar surface. Within just a few hours of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 touching down on the Moon, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spotted the spacecraft in new imagery that shows it resting on the lunar surface on March 2. In the new LRO photos, the Blue Ghost lander app…

Modeling Lunar ISRU Extraction Can Help Plan Future Prototypes

In-situ resource utilization will likely play a major role in any future long-term settlement of the Moon. However, designing such a system in advance with our current level of knowledge will prove difficult, mainly because there's so much uncertainty around both the availability of those resources and the efficacy of the processes used to extract them. Luckily, researchers have tools that can try to deal with both of those uncertainties - stati…

NASA's dust shield successfully repels lunar regolith on moon

NASA's Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the moon during Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded on March 16.

There is a Pololu motor encoder on the Moon

Pololu Robotics and Electronics posts: One of our products is literally on the moon right now, and we got clearance from Firefly Aerospace to share this level of detail: One of our encoders supported the gimbal mechanisms on the top deck of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander that completed a successful mission on the Moon in March 2025. These mechanisms helped point the X-band antenna back at Earth after landing as shown (above). Read m…

Check Out These Stunning Photos of the Blue Ghost's Moon Landing

Lunar exploration is an area where you must regularly face unforeseen events and technical challenges. Thus, several landingers have experienced little glorious destinies. Recently, for example, there was the Athena probe of NASA. Unfortunately, she landed on the side instead of landing vertically, which was fatal to her. The Blue Ghost landing developed by the American company Firefly Aerospace prove that lunar exploration is progressing. In ad…