What does it take to vacuum up lunar regolith while already in a vacuum? The Lunar PlanetVac team knows.

We received video of our LPV operations and invited the payload team into the MOC to watch the video on our video wall.

Seeing their excitement was so rewarding after years of hard work!🧪🌖

Blue Ghost is rocking on with our Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) deployment!🌑🔍🧪

This involved deploying probes, which look very much like cannonballs flying over the Moon, and then deploying the antenna mast straight up. So as far as I’m concerned, we are basically #Moon pirates. 🏴‍☠️🦜

The #Moon is so beautiful. Yes it appears monochrome, but the bright white ejecta and the pitch black of shadowed regions create a diverse landscape.

I love how we are finally able to make out smaller craters that were not visible and higher altitudes. 🧪 Only a few days until Blue Ghost lands!

Blue Ghost completed LOI2 which brought us into lower elliptical orbit around the #Moon. We were able to capture the footage seen here at approx 120km off the surface of the Moon.

For reference, the ISS orbits the Earth at around 400km.

We are getting close to descent, only a few weeks to go!🧪

We made it to the Moon!

Blue Ghost is currently orbiting our nearest celestial neighbor! 🌖

It’s truly unbelievable to see our lander finally in orbit around the thing I’ve been looking at in the night sky for 35 years.

I can’t wait to get the chance to stick the landing in a few weeks!🧪

A beautiful view of Earth captured by Blue Ghost! The images we have been capturing are breathtaking. 🧪🦋

I hope we can inspire the next generation of #space explorers the same way images from the ISS and Hubble inspired me as a kid.

We caught a beautiful view of our little blue planet. 🥹

I can't stop watching this video, thinking our lander is truly leaving us behind. 🧪🦋

Blue Ghost is on her way back out towards her apogee! #BGM1

Video: Firefly Aerospace