Blue Ghost's rectangular antenna on the lander's top deck was gimbaled in such a way as to shade the area in which the radio was contained. "We're from Texas so we know about shade," Kim said.

A rare blue ghost firefly is known to flicker in the southern Appalachia region. Now, they've been spotted in central Kentucky.

"Blue Ghost aced environmental testing and proved the lander is performing 100% as expected, which is a testament to the incredible Firefly team," Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim said in the release.

Blue ghost fireflies appear in Pisgah National Forest outside of Brevard, North Carolina, every year in late spring and early summer. Here's when and how to spot this phenomenon.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander was lofted moonward on Jan. 15, 2025 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Most of Indiana doesn't have documentation of the blue ghost firefly. This scientist said he had found it in Boone County, Kentucky, and even, I think, in Hamilton County, Ohio.