Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY) acquired Space-ng Inc. on June 25, bringing in-house the AI vision navigation system that guided its Blue Ghost lander to the first fully successful commercial touchdown on the Moon in March 2025 — a system that autonomously executed two hazard avoidance maneuvers in real time during lunar descent and is now under contract to guide five more Firefly missions. The deal, announced two days ago out of Firefly's Cedar Park, Texas, headquarters, brings Space-ng's software, high-resolution spacecraft cameras, and AI compute hardware directly onto Firefly's engineering books. Financial terms were not disclosed. During Blue Ghost Mission 1, which touched down in Mare Crisium on March 2, 2025, Space-ng's terrain relative navigation software determined Blue Ghost's position and attitude throughout the final hour of descent by comparing live imagery from two onboard navigation cameras against simulated lunar terrain rendered in real time by the spacecraft's onboard computer. The system identified craters, slopes, and rocks in previously uncharted terrain and computed two separate hazard avoidance maneuvers before settling on a safe landing site. Space-ng's approach uses computer vision and machine learning instead of lidar, packaged into a hardware unit — now sold under the Firefly brand, formerly called the Space-ng Sol3 — whose flight compute base unit weighs less than 0.75 kilograms and can interface with up to 12 camera modules simultaneously.