Following its launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on January 15, Blue Ghost traveled over 2.8 million miles, transmitted more than 27 gigabytes of data, and supported multiple science operations. Among its achievements, the lander’s Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment successfully tracked signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at a record-breaking distance of 246,000 miles, demonstrating that the same positioning technology used on Earth can also function on the moon.
NASA invested $101 million for the delivery and an additional $44 million for the science and technology aboard the lander. This marks the third mission under the agency’s commercial lunar delivery program, designed to foster a competitive lunar economy while gathering crucial data ahead of astronaut missions later this decade.