Firefly Blue Ghost Lander successfully touched the moon
Firesfly Aerospace’s first attempt to land the moon was successful. The company that works with NASA under the agency He announced early on Sunday morning that his Blue Ghost Lander touched the moon quietly and is facing and communicating with the team at home. Blue Ghost landed at 3:34 pm ET in a region known as Mare Crisium. While Firefly’s Lander is not the first commercial spacecraft to land on the moon, it it The first to land properly – the odyssey of intuitive machines Last year after faster than planned descent.
The blue ghost and NASA tools they carry are expected to remain in operation for about 14 earthly days. Then the lunar night will begin. If everything goes according to plan, Lander will capture images in lead until the lunar night and a few hours after the fall of darkness, receiving images with high resolution of full eclipse, lunar sunset and other moments to document the behavior of the left -wing dust. NASA also tests tools that can pierce and collect samples from the surface.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launches on January 15 and reached Lunar Orbit about a month later. The team says it has already been sent over 27 GB of data back to the ground from its trip. “Only through transit to the moon, the mission of Firefly has already provided the most scientific data so far for the NASA CLPS initiative,” said Shee Ferring, Chief Technology Officer of Firefly, at A A statementNoting that the most difficult part of the mission is over. At the X, the company shared a photo showing the shadow of Lander on the surface of the moon after its successful pressing, and jokes: “The farmer saw his shadow, another 2 weeks of the OP!”
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