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FighterJock said:
Excellent news, well done to all involved. How long will the lander be operational on the lunar surface?
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Will have to look up to confirm what was heard after midnight our time, but I'm pretty sure they said their planned mission was 1 lunar day, aka 2 Earth weeks.

EDIT: Yeah, here, this supports what I remember,

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Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace

Firefly’s first mission to the Moon will deliver 10 NASA CLPS payloads to Mare Crisium with a target landing date of March 2, 2025.
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Mission Updates​

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit before softly touching down on the Moon on March 2. Firefly is now the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing! As Blue Ghost performs 14 days of surface operations, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way.
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Scott Manley has recently put out a video about three privately funded Moon-landers including the Blue Ghost:


Last month Firefly and iSpace launched their own independent lunar landers to on the same SpaceX rocket. In a few days we expect Intuitive Machines to launch on another Falcon 9. This means we're going to have 3 privately built lunar landers en route to the moon, before Firefly's Blue Ghost hopes to attempt a landing this weekend.
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So why are there so many private companies building lunar landers? What are their plans and what differentiates their designs?
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The Space Bucket has put out a video about the touchdown of the Blue Ghost Moon-lander:


A few days ago Firefly Aerospace successfully landed on the Moon with its privately built Blue Ghost lunar lander. While initially we only got a few images of the lander after it had touched down on the Moon, Firefly just released a new video.
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Here, we can see not only the landing but also some of the final maneuvers that were made leading up to the touchdown. It also gives us a good idea of the speed and state of the landing as teams work to complete more science over the next two weeks.https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...w&q=https://thespacebucket.com/&v=IMd2A1Wljfc
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Credit:
Firefly Aerospace - / @fireflyspace https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31UF9oKANw77yxBLxN852A
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Landing Video
4:03 - Two Weeks
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Scott Manley has uploaded another video about the Blue Ghost lander and how its' video gave clues as to where it landed on the Moon:


Ok the video is great, go and watch it first.
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But as soon as I saw it I was examining every detail to figure out the landing site, since the previously released images didn't have enough context given the limited resolution of images we already had.
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And so my answer is 18.5635N 61.8099E - watch the video to find out how I figured this out.
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The Space Bucket has an update video about the Blue Ghost Moon-lander:


It's been about 10 days since Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the Moon's surface and since then it's been very busy. In that time, the lander has primarily been conducting different payload science, and videoing it when possible.
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In addition, images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the lander's exact location and how close it truly is to a crater.
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Credit:
Firefly Aerospace - / @fireflyspace https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31UF9oKANw77yxBLxN852A
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Surface Operations
3:35 - Extreme Heat
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