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Firefly Aerospace, a Texas -based startup, became only the second private sectoral company represented by a spacecraft on the moon, Release From the moment Blue Ghost Lander fell On the surface of the moon.
The company said that Blue Ghost has successfully shared the shots after the X-BAND antenna, which could bring data and photos from the car.
The video, it was captured as Blue Ghost The north of the moon’s leveling line directly inside an old volcanic basin called Mare Crisium, shows the car steadily on its way before it landed victorious on its four legs.
Inside the pelvis, Lunar Lander is located near an old volcanic feature called Mons Latreille, which is located on the edge of the Far East of the Moon’s visible face.
Blue Ghost is expected to study the surface of the moon for about two weeks until the darkness of the moon is drowned in the landing zone in the severe cold and darkness, making everything impossible to largely -powered to continue its operations.
The car will try to continue working shortly in the dark, as the spacecraft is equipped with batteries that aim to allow five hours or more of operation in the absence of sunlight.
Blue Ghost mission on the moon
In a blog mail Tuesday, NASA – which sponsored this task through commercial lunar load services, or CLPS, said that all ten science tools and technology aboard Blue Ghost are still in good health.
Many tools have also started collecting data. It includes a dynamic dust shield, or EDS, which is designed to sweep the moon dust that has started to land from the surface of the spacecraft using electric currents. Moon dust pioneers were afflicted with the spacecraft during the Apollo program in NASA in the mid -twentieth century, such as the lenses and masks of micro -materials and abrasion, according to what he said Nassa.
The Space Agency said that the initial data analysis indicates that the EDS experience is “a promising solution for the future moon surface operations.”
The experience of the future of the global satellite system has been turned on the Lunar Global Synar, or Lugre, which makes history by obtaining a GPS signal from the moon for the first time.
The Planetvac Moon Tool, developed by Honeybee Robotics, was spread on the moon and appears at the end of the arms of access to the Blue Ghost surface. Credit: Firefly Aerospace – Firefly Aerospace
NASA cameras for moon surface studies, or head -headed also took pictures that would help the space agency understand how lunar soil interacts with the spacecraft engine while it is heading to landing.
Finally, the Blue Ghost has published Planetvac Lunar, or LPV, a type of vacuum equipped with its special gas designed to absorb the soil from the moon’s surface, and test how to make the collection of samples more efficiently in the absence of heaviness. NASA confirmed that the vacuum had started operations, but it has not yet said how successful the tool.
Blue Ghost is the first of the two Lunar Landers developed by separate Texas -based companies to head to the moon this week.
Houston -based intuitive machines are preparing to drop the spacecraft in Athens near the southern pole of the moon, which scientists believe are home to the aqueous ice. These resources may be of high value to explore the moon, as water can be converted into breathing air, drinking water, or missile fuel for future missions.
Like Firefly, the intuitive machines were funded by the NASA CLPS program, which is part of the wider space agency to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than five decades under the Artemis program. The first ARTEMIS Moon-Landing Landing mission is currently scheduled for mid-2017.
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