Blue Ghost completes historic commercial moon mission

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has become the first private lunar lander to successfully complete its mission.

According to its U.S. company Firefly Aerospace on Monday Blue Ghost transmitted some 1-hundred-20 gigabytes of data back to Earth upon landing on March 2nd well beyond expectations.

It also stands as the longest-running commercial lunar mission operating for 14 days to break a number of records including that for receiving the farthest GPS signal on the moon adopting a vacuum to gather and sort lunar dust and using a drill to gauge soil temperatures.