Firefly Aerospace launched a “Blue Ghost” from the moon’s orbit and moved to a missile landing early on Sunday, which led to the completely successful moon through a commercial robotic scandal vehicle.
An exciting image of the camera on the blue ghost ground shows the spacecraft shadow on the moon shortly after landing with the Earth hanging in space over the lunar horizon. / Credit: spacecraft
Flying above the distant side of the moon in a 62-mile rising orbit, the squatting land launched its main engine at 2:31 am EST, and began to get white for a period of 63 minutes to the landing site in Mary’s crisis-sea crises-in the northeast of the moon of the Earth.
The coast was looked for for ANDER 6.6 feet for 52 minutes before using its main engine and eight control in the smaller reaction, or RCS, claims to reduce its speed from about 3800 miles per hour to 90 miles per hour only as it moves to the position above the landing site.
After the independent terrain analysis below for rocks, slopes and other risks, Blue Ghost came down using the power of the eight reaction control aircraft. Punse planes are carried out as needed to control speed and guidance before slowing the craft to only 2.2 mph to the last 30 feet or so from landing.
Firefly Aerospace employees and family members, who are collectively known as “Al -Wara’a”, watched a remote measurement stream on a large screen near Austin, Texas, the mission control center, undoubtedly on the edges of the seats that are approaching the seats with a length of 11.5 feet from the surface.
“Eleven meters”. After a moment, the defenses closed the sensors on the surface on the landing legs that absorb the shocks in the Blue Ghost until they were on the surface of the moon.
“The engine closed,” has been verified by the flight console.
“Nominal power, the car charges (with its solar cells),” another person who waives.
The “Self -Deficiency Measurement Unit) Lunar gravity reports, which are stable.”
Will Kojan, chief engineer, came on the line with the official results: “I all suspended the landing! We are on the surface of the moon!”
Blue ghost landing sequence. / Credit: spacecraft
The gathered bridges immediately erupted into slogans, hugs and loud applause. After a few minutes, the hats were distributed, “Make a great space again.”
“Firefly has succeeded in landing on the surface of the moon in a stable and stable condition, becoming the first commercial company to complete a completely successful decline,” said Brigitte Ox, Vice President of Engineering.
Apollo 11 Moonwalker Buzz aldrin said in a post X social media platform: “Contact with light, stop the engine!” Congratulations Firefly Aerospace on Mission’s Blue Ghost 1 Handing today!
Firefly Aerospace Employees and family members chant and neutralize the successful landing of Blue Ghost Lunar Lander. / Credit: Nasa/ Firefly Aerospace
It was launched on January 15, The timing of the landing was coincided with the beginning of the moon’s day for two weeks. The solar -powered Blue Ghost will operate 10 NASA experiments while sunlight is available, and if things go well, for a few hours on the moon’s night using the stored battery energy. After that, it will be silent.
“Once in the Blue Moon long ago, this type of Lunar Landers took billions of dollars and countries behind (they) to land on the moon,” Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly told CBS News in an interview before its launch.
“This is Firefly Aerospace, which will fall on the moon’s surface in fractures of the fixed price contract, and do so with the latest commercial technology,” he said. “Just just as Simon Bells grabbed the Olympic Games, we will do the same for the state of Texas, America and the world.”
For Ray Allensworth, director of the Firefly spacecraft program, the moon will not look like.
She said: “We all dreamed of all until now after I looked at (the moon) and only imagined, such as, this is where it would be.” “But now, you know it is, and this is a completely different feeling. So, yes, the next moon is complete, I will not sleep. I will stare with it all night.”
NASA agreed to pay a 101 million dollar space extinguishing to carry 10 scientific tools and scientific operations sponsored by the agency, which was built at $ 44 million, to the moon as part of the CLPS commercial load services initiative.
Lander Blue Looks in a clean room before launch. / Credit: spacecraft
The CLPS program aims to encourage the private industry to launch agencies to the moon to collect the necessary scientific and engineering data before artemis astronauts began on the surface near the southern pole later in this decade.
“Before we can send humans to the moon, we send a lot of science and a lot of technology early to prepare for that,” said Nikki Fox, Director of Space Sciences at NASA headquarters.
“We have learned a lot of lessons during the APOLLO era, and technological and scientific demonstrations will be on board Firefly’s Blue Ghost is very important in our ability not only to discovering more science, but also to ensure the safety of our space tools, and most importantly, the integrity of our astronauts.”
Firefly tools include three designers to study how to disturb the landing cannons of the lunar soil, and how microscopic dust particles are committed to spacecraft surfaces and whether the dynamic electrical technologies to remove accumulated pollution will work in the lunar environment.
The drilling of the surface will be tolerated at the bottom of the blue ghost to measure the soil temperatures at different depths while the new sample collection system will try to detonate the surface molecules literally in the capture device, which leads to the need for ARM recovery systems.
A computer that can withstand radiation will be tested, another tool will try to pull the satellite data for navigation from GPS and process it from Earth, and it will work as a target for locating on the Earth -based laser, and will take another tool for X -rays that show the interactions between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field.
Besides Blue Ghost’s initial mission, Firefly has a $ 130 million ClPs contract for a second trip in 2026, which is the other aspect of the moon that includes a blue ghost and a tropical spacecraft called Elara. Another $ 179 million CLPS contract helps pay the Blue Ghost Lander, Rover and Orese Orbiter ghost price.
“On one of these days, we will get there in terms of commercial aspects of the moon,” Kim said. “There will be a lot of action plans that will be sustainable and self -perfect. It is a great position to go frequently and test new tasks to maintain life in space, which is a starting point for Mars as well.”
The artist’s impression of the blue ghost on the moon. / Credit: spacecraft
Blue Ghost is the first of three commercially sophisticated tools, all of which were launched during the month and a half, to reach the moon.
Blue Ghost on the Blue Ghost on the Falcon 9 Serair itself last January was another moon, a spacecraft called “flexibility” that was built by ISPace based in Tokyo. The company sent its first player to the moon last year, but it is The surface was destroyed After running out of the fuel due to the program defect.
Flexibility, called a different way to the moon, has taken the Blue Ghost, a low energy path that uses lunar gravity to help reach the desired orbit required to try to land in May.
After another moon exhibition, built before Houston -based intuitive machines Known as Athens, it was launched last Wednesday by Falcon 9, and it is expected to fall on the surface of the moon on March 6. She reached the first landing of the company, Odysseus, on the surface of the moon last year, but it tended to land and could not complete all its planned research.
Athena was also largely funded by NAPS, which agreed to pay $ 62.5 million to a company to carry an advanced and collective spectrum on the moon.
NASA gave a “turning point” contract of $ 15 million to Nokia to test cellular communications on the moon and another $ 41 million for the intuitive machines of small “Qadoub” missile machines that will jump to a hole permanently in search of ice sediments.
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