HERE'S THE SECRET TO HOW FIREFLY WAS ABLE TO NAIL ITS FIRST LUNAR LANDING

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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, has accomplished a lot on the Moon in the last two weeks. It has drilled into the Moon's surface, tested an extraterrestrial vacuum cleaner, demonstrated that GPS can be used to navigate on the lunar surface, and sent daily imagery back to Earth. All of the mission objectives for the Blue Ghost mission have been met. This article details how Firefly managed to secure the first fully successful commercial lunar landing, the challenges Firefly's engineers have had to overcome, some of the discoveries that Blue Ghost has made so far, and the progress of other missions in the CLPS program.