section_path: Hardware
section_name: Hardware
paragraph_text: Hardware
  
  Blue Ghost featured in-house manufactured composite decks, struts, landing legs, and footpads. Its thermal control system used a combination of heaters, temperature sensors, and Multi-layer insulation. The onboard avionics and batteries were designed and built by Firefly, while the solar panels from subcontractor SolAero By Rocket Lab provide a maximum of 400 watts of power. ASI by Rocket Lab provided ground and flight software, trajectory design, orbit determination, and software testbed integration. Blue Ghost featured a Nammo LEROS-4 main engine, eight smaller Firefly Spectre biprop thrusters, and four sets of Firefly cold-gas Attitude control system thrusters. The spacecraft featured both S band and X band radios and communicated with Swedish Space Corporation ground stations over the course of the mission. Two Firefly gimbals provided pointing for the X-band antenna, LuGRE antenna, LEXI telescope, and NGLR Retroreflector. Firefly also performed vehicle integration in its Cedar Park, Texas cleanroom facility and, following integration, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thermal vacuum chamber.
  
  Firefly asserts that its in-house end-to-end manufacturing and testing of the Blue Ghost structure is a differentiator among the CLPS landers.