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From Cedar Park to the moon: local Firefly Aerospace launches moon mission
A Central Texas-based effort ... just after midnight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lunar lander was designed and built at Firefly Aerospace in Cedar Park. "We were prepared for ...
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The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Headed to the Moon: Here's What to Know
Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for the right time to fling itself to the moon. After four days in transit, ...
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Firefly punches NASA moon ticket with overnight SpaceX launch
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A SpaceX mission lifted ... A Falcon 9 lifted off at 1:11 a.m. from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A carrying the Cedar Park, Texas-based company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ...
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Texas-based Firefly's lunar lander among 2 headed to moon after being launched by SpaceX
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center carrying ... Firefly is headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, in the Austin area.
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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Launches and Begins 45-Day Transit to the Moon
CEDAR PARK, Texas, Jan. 15 ... launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. EST on January 15, 2025. Blue Ghost separated from the SpaceX Falcon ...
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SpaceX launches two moon landers — one built in Texas — on Wednesday morning
But at 12:11 a.m. CST, they launched together on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is launching its first moon mission ...