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Pololu product on the Moon!
This is not an April fools joke! One of our products is literally on the moon right now, and we got clearance from Firefly Aerospace to share this level of detail:
One of our encoders supported the gimbal mechanisms on the top deck of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander that completed a successful mission on the Moon in March 2025. These mechanisms helped point the X-band antenna back at Earth after landing as shown here:
Learn more about Firefly’s Blue Ghost mission here: Blue Ghost Mission 1 – Firefly Aerospace.
Congratulations to everyone at Firefly Aerospace and thank you for letting us be a part of it!
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