The moon will be a crowded place this year. There are three automatic spacecraft in space now It aims to place the moon’s surface.
The first to arrive – Blue Ghost Lunar Lander, which was built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas – will try early on Sunday.
When is the landing and how can I see it?
The landing is scheduled to be at 3:45 AM on March 2. Firefly will start directly Covering down At 2:20 am from YouTube.
What is the Blue Ghost destination?
This task is directed to Mare Crisium, a flat plain consisting of volcanic lava that fills and hardens inside a hole at the level of 345 miles carved by the effect of the old asteroid. Mare Crisium is located in the northeastern quarter of the nearby side of the moon.
What takes Blue Ghost to the moon?
Lander carries a variety of scientific and experimental loads on the moon, including 10 people. These exercises include to measure the heat flow from the interior of the moon to the surface, the dynamic dust shield to clean the glass surfaces and radiators, and the X -ray camera.
These goods are part of the commercial commercial commercial load service, or CLPS, which aims to place NASA equipment on the surface of the moon at a cheaper price than if NASA built its lunar cradle. The agency will pay a banner of $ 101.5 million if all ten loads reach the moon, and slightly less if the task does not succeed.
Blue Ghost is the third CLPS mission that will be launched on the moon. The first, in 2024, from Astrobooth of Pitsburgh, Fail. The second, by the intuitive machines in Houston last year, He reached the moon, but it is inclined.
Why does a drop in such an early watch happen?
Physics of access to a specific place in the solar system does not always match a certain time when people are awake to watch. The Blue Ghost Lander gets its strength from solar panels, and thus the task aims to land shortly after the new moon day. To reach Mary Crisium on March 2, it was found that the decline is 3:45 am
“This is only when that happens,” said Ray Alinsworth, Blue Ghost’s program manager at Firefly.
The task is to last about 14 days from Earth until the sunset.
How did the mission go so far?
Blue Ghost performed almost perfect. During the first 25 days, it revolved around the Earth while operating the company and examined the spacecraft systems. Then she fired her four -day journey towards the moon, and entered the orbit on February 13. The spacecraft cameras recorded closer views of the moon.
Some small differences appeared along the way, but there are no significant breakdowns. Mostly, the mission control units made adjustments and learned how the spacecraft acted in the space environment.
“Thermal warnings may explode,” said Ms. Alinsworth. “Things are slightly hotter than the planned, a little cooler than the planned on the car. You want to look at that data and see that it is really fine.”
What happened to the other lunar landing that was launched with Blue Ghost?
on Same Spacex Falcon 9 This Blue Ghost To Orbit was flexibility, the cradle of the moon that was built by Japan. The two tasks are separate, but ISPace, which seeks to ride cheaper into space, asked Spacex to obtain a rideshare, that is, wandering on a journey as a secondary load. That turned into the launch of Blue Ghost.
Although the flexibility that was launched at the same time as Blue Ghost, it takes a longer and more efficient fuel -consuming path to the moon, and is expected to enter orbit around the moon in early May.
