Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on the moon in March 2025, downlinking nearly 120 gigabytes of raw data back to Earth. The company’s next lunar mission, Blue Ghost Mission 2 — targeted for launch in late 2026 — will carry Firefly’s Ocula moon imaging service, marking the first time the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform has operated in lunar orbit. Ocula will run AI algorithms directly on orbit using Jetson to extract critical insights and transmit only the most relevant information back to Earth in near real time. For Blue Ghost Mission 2, a lunar lander will separate and descend to the far side of the moon in support of NASA-funded, UC Berkeley-led research to detect faint signals from the cosmic Dark Ages. Meanwhile, Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft will continue orbiting the moon for its five-year mission, running Ocula and its NVIDIA Jetson AI-powered processing chain. Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace, which is based in Austin, Texas, said, “We believe in a future where all AI processing and sensing will happen in space.”