On January 15, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, successfully acquired signal, and completed on-orbit commissioning.  With Redwire camera technology onboard, the 60-day mission has a target lunar landing date of March 2, 2025. The lander will spend approximately 45 days on-orbit and 14 days on the lunar surface.

Redwire delivered 12 flight cameras, a vision navigation processor, and two flight floodlights for the Blue Ghost lander. The Redwire camera system for Blue Ghost Mission 1 provides wide fields of view, color, and monochrome imagery to support spacecraft operations throughout the mission. The navigation cameras will provide data crucial for terrain relative navigation operations to help enable the lander to touch down on the lunar surface autonomously during final descent. The floodlights will assist with object detection on the lunar surface.

Read more about Redwire’s cameras onboard Blue Ghost Mission 1 and other lunar missions here.