Blue Ghost Mission 4 Program

Firefly Aerospace lunar delivery program under NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services, targeted for 2029 to land in the lunar South Pole region. The CS-6 delivery will carry a multi-payload suite including MoonRanger and a Canadian Space Agency rover plus SCALPSS, a laser retroreflector array, and a laser ionization mass spectrometer to study polar resources, landing interactions, lunar chronology, and autonomous exploration.

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Aliases: Blue Ghost Mission 4Blue Ghost 4Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 4CS-6
Domains: spaceflight
Name: Blue Ghost Mission 4 Program
Status: planned
Types: scienceexplorationdevelopmentoperations

Details

Description: Firefly Aerospace lunar delivery program under NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services, targeted for 2029 to land in the lunar South Pole region. The CS-6 delivery will carry a multi-payload suite including MoonRanger and a Canadian Space Agency rover plus SCALPSS, a laser retroreflector array, and a laser ionization mass spectrometer to study polar resources, landing interactions, lunar chronology, and autonomous exploration.
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Start Date: 2029

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Creation Time: August 14, 2026 at 00:07:41 UTC
Updated Time: August 14, 2026 at 00:07:41 UTC

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Official Urls: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-firefly-for-new-artemis-science-tech-delivery-to-moon/https://science.nasa.gov/lunar-science/programs/clps/cs-6-science/https://science.nasa.gov/lunar-science/clps-deliveries/