Blue Ghost Mission 2

Key facts

Mission & specifications

Mission

Blue Ghost Mission 2 aims for the side of the Moon we never see — and the silence there is the point. Firefly's second lander, planned for late 2026, targets the far side near Nassau crater, a place permanently shielded from Earth's roar of radio and television. Its flagship payload, LuSEE-Night, is a low-frequency radio telescope built by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and UC Berkeley to survive the two-week lunar night and listen for one of astronomy's faintest whispers: radio waves from the cosmic “Dark Ages”, the long stretch after the Big Bang before the first stars lit up, which are drowned out everywhere on Earth. To reach the far side the lander flies stacked on Firefly's Elytra orbiter, which then stays in lunar orbit to relay communications — carrying ESA's Lunar Pathfinder — for years. It is a mission to hear the universe's quietest era from the quietest place we can reach.

1. 2026Planned launch on a Falcon 9Launch

   Firefly's second lander, stacked on the Elytra orbiter, is scheduled to launch toward the lunar far side.

2. 2027Planned far-side landingArrival

   Expected to land near Nassau crater on the far side and set up the LuSEE-Night radio telescope.

3. 2027Planned Dark-Ages listeningMilestone

   LuSEE-Night is expected to begin listening for faint radio waves from the cosmic Dark Ages in the radio-quiet far side.

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