"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, and this technology is already providing data that could inform future missions.

Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes of data back to Earth. This was the longest commercial mission on the Moon to date, and the first of a series of landers designed to touch down on the lunar surface on a yearly basis.