Firefly Aerospace will deliver NASA's rover to the Moon in 2028.

The mission utilizes the Blue Ghost 3 lander from the American private company Firefly Aerospace. It will deliver six payloads to the Moon to study the Gruithuisen crater and collect regolith samples. Some of the scientific instruments will be installed on a lunar rover.

The primary goal is to assist scientists in understanding the formation of the Gruithuisen domes, a region with rocks that appear to be composed of silica-rich magma, similar to granite. On Earth, granite forms as a result of plate tectonics and in the presence of water, which is absent on the Moon, so researchers are uncertain how the Gruithuisen domes were formed.