U.S. company Firefly Aerospace achieves moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft

U.S. space company Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its uncrewed lunar lander, Blue Ghost, on the moon, becoming the second private company to successfully land on the moon.

Blue Ghost, about the size of a compact car and equipped with four legs, carried 10 scientific payloads. It landed in the northeastern region of the moon in the early hours of Sunday, U.S. time.

Firefly claims it is the first to achieve a "fully successful" soft landing.

Previously, Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus lander last year, but it touched down at an angle, causing many of its onboard instruments to malfunction.