Ghost blue, a private US space, lands on the moon
After a successful touch of the moon, the firefly aerospace ghost blue ghost mission could come together through two other commercial ships
An artist’s impression of the blue ghost ghosts of the aerospace of the firefighters on 1 Lander surface.
Ghost blue, a Lunar Landa, funded by NASA, built by the US private company Sufly Aerospace, has touched on the moon.
In the 45-day space and a long-hour period, at 3:35, three legs in the box of four-boxed spaceships in the box, northeast of the moon, was frozen lava on the northeast of the moon. This one has landed the moon for the second time the second time landed on the moon Apollo 17 1972 mission; The first has happened More than 1 year ago Other robotic robotic roles, the intuitive machine of the company Odysseus Lander, made the moon Lopsided but intact In a crater about the south pole of the moon. (Another US commercial mission, Astrobrotic Company Peregrine Lander, Failed to reach the moon In January 2024.)
“We are on the moon!” Nashy Fox, after the NASA Science Mission Manager Administrator, after seeing the “Watch Party” aerospace landing in Cedar Park, Texas, Cedar Park.
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“Every thing was the clock when we landed,” Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim Kim at the same event. “We have a little moon powder with boots!”
“I’m proud of our team. Firefly has a way to constantly overcome expectations, and it’s the perfect example of it,” Brigette Oakes, Firefly through the President of the Vice President of Engineering of Aerospace. “Now we have a permanent presence on the moon. When we look at the moon, we can tell our child and future generations that our names are there.”
“I can’t tell you how excited to live right now and live on the moon,” Janet Petro said the NASA Clock party made by Janet Petro. “I think this administration really wants to save America first, and I think America’s first maintaining mode is domains … That’s the prevailing space (moon) that we think the space is the first of America (and) We will proud America.”
A crowded moon
It is on the moon, the ghost blue is about two weeks, using many scientific and technological studies, using the set of ten experiments offered by the NASA in the Space Agency. Commercial Moon Load Services (CLPS) Public-private partnership initiative. Clps NASA’s effort is to save costs over a dozen companies to go to the moon for ferry loads and science experiments, and is connected Artemis of the Space Agency Ambitious Program It meant to return astronauts this decade.
The initiative has funded all the landing attempts in the US Commercial Moon, which focus 2.8 billion for 2028,000 missions. And his next intuitive installation Athena Lander already enrout. Scheduled to land on March 6, Athenea will be the flat mountain of the Mons Mouth Mouton, 160 kilometers from the Lunar South Pole, where it is He plans to operate about ten days.
If all go well, on March 14, both ghost and athena will witness Lunar eclipse As the shadows of the earth passes through the moon. After two days, the moon fall will fall, the surface in the darkness and coldness in two weeks.
Meanwhile, a Japanese company, however, is built by Japanese Ispace companies. Will prepare an appointment with Destiny. A landing projected for May is projected on a site called Mare Frigoris Northern Mare Frigoris. This is the attempt to land the second Moon of Ispace after his first role revise In 2023.
Resilience, Hakuto-R mission is also called 2, Launched to the moon with blue ghosts 9 rocket at the end of February. But unlike other territories, the Japanese mission is making a fuel-saving route to reach the lunar destination. In blue ghosts, the trio of the spacecraft marked three times that the three territories were linked to the moon at the same time.
Deep science, dust and moon sunset
Including ten loads of ten NASA in Ghost, it is an experiment to collect and analyze moon soil samples Dusty moon dust Sticks and various materials, can be cleaned up a camera to learn the space weather and control another spacecraft landing powder, and more. A bottled retoreflector will serve as a target for lasers of the land, determining the distance from the ground moon to the sub-millimeter. And another tool will detect and use GPS signals from the satellites of the Earth, as evidence of future moon navigation.
However, Lander, however, may examine the inside of the moon to clarify new chapters in its 4.5 million history history. According to NASA scientists, Mare Crisium is a region that can be a more representative of the average composition of the moon than any site studied by Apollo Apollo.
One of those tools that look inside, duplicate Lister (short Lunar Instrumentation Infrastructure Thermal Exploration With Region) It is a drill capable of setting 3 meters under the surface of the moon, to measure that scientists deeply emit deeply, the moon is now cooling from the medium world ball. Another, called Magnetotle Moon (LMS), the electrode will locate 700 square meters in a ground soil. The measurements of measurements of subtle electric and magnetic streams of courses through the moon can perform more than a thousand miles in two-thirds of the Moon Center. Scientists hope that it can also illuminate the fresh approach to our satellites and a fresh approach to the structure of our satellites, the deep evolution of other amazing worlds like Venus, Mars and the earth.
The blue ghost can suffer the moon night for several hours, but the last poignant feature of the moon occurs before the night fall, the moonlight in the sunset. Twilight spreads slowly on the moon, and as the sun slides behind the moon horns, its light has the effects of electrostatic positions and micrometeororoids. This creates something called Lunar Horizon Glow, a phenomenon seen by NASA Astronaut Eugene Cernan Apollo 17The last mission of the Apollo program. Before going through darkness, the blue ghost will have a high view of the great glow, offering the fleeting look of the moon and rarely.
