Blue Ghost lunar lander: Private lunar lander Blue Ghost falls silent on the moon after a 2-week mission

It’s lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission.

Firefly Aerospace‘s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA. The end came as the sun set at the moon, no longer providing energy for the lander’s solar panels.

“Mission is completed,” Firefly CEO Jason Kim said via X late Sunday night. “But the Ghost still lives on in our hearts and minds for the journey it’s taken us on!”

The lander operated five hours into the lunar night as planned before…