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'We learned so much that we didn't know': Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander mission was full of surprises

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The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 safely touched down on March 2 .

The first fully successful commercial lunar lander mission took place on the moon in March .

A key to Blue Ghost's spot-on landing was plotting out the spacecraft's changing mass properties.

A surprising finding from Blue Ghost was the lunar temperature.

Firefly is ramping up for annual missions to the moon.

The Blue Ghost batteries used on the lander exceeded expectations.

Firefly has begun qualifying and assembling flight hardware for Blue Ghost Mission-2.

The far side lander is based on a slightly incremental design of the Blue Ghost mission.

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