Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace successfully gets lunar lander into space
The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander soared out of the Florida coastline and into space, shining as bright as a Central Texas firefly in the summertime. "It's an incredible privilege, and it's hard to fully understand the extent of that impact," said Kevin Scholtes, the future systems architect at Firefly Aerospace.
Texas-based Firefly's lunar lander among 2 headed to moon after being launched by SpaceX
Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, including one here in Texas, SpaceX granted that wish.
Firefly Aerospace's, NASA successfully launch Blue Ghost lunar lander to moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later. The lunar lander — part of a mission known as Blue Ghost Mission 1 or Ghost Riders in the Sky — will spend 45 days in orbit and 14 days on the surface of the moon.
Cedar Park-based Firefly set to launch lunar lander early Wednesday morning
CEDAR PARK, Texas — A Central Texas aerospace company is making final preparations before blasting off to the stars. Early Wednesday morning, the lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace is set to launch from Florida and head to the moon.
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
The two robotic lunar landers —one from Firefly Aerospace based near Austin, Texas, and another from the Japanese space company ispace—will use their own small engines for the final maneuvers required to enter orbit around the Moon in the coming months.
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander headed to space
A company out of Cedar Park launched a spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 on Wednesday.
US: SpaceX Launches Two Private Moon Landers
Merritt Island, United States - January 15, 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with two commercial lunar landers from Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Jan. 15, 2025.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Launches and Begins 45-Day Transit to the Moon
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SpaceX to Launch Starlink Satellites from Kennedy Space Center on January 21
SpaceX is set to launch another batch of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit during a four-hour launch window that opens at 12:13 a.m. ET.
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'There's a space for everyone': Indoor activity park opens in Berks
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America's next 'road trip' to Moon blasts off from Florida
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