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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lander has reached the moon.
Blue ghost Its engines were launched for four minutes and 15 seconds on Thursday (February 13), as it achieved itself in the orbit of the elliptical moon before the planned landing, trying slightly more than two weeks from now.
The spacecraft celebrated the teacher by taking some pictures, a number of them that were diluted in a 27 -second dramatic video.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander took this image of the moon shortly after reaching the moon’s orbit on February 13, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace
“i love you to the moonBut not again-I will stay there. ”The Texas-based company (from the Blue Ghost perspective) wrote today (February 14) in X post Who shared the video.
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Blue ghost It launched January 15 Above a Spacex The Falcon 9 missile. The Lander’s mission, called “Ghost Rides in the Sky”, is part of the CLPS in NASA. Blue Ghost 10 carries the agency’s scientific and technological experiences, which want to better understand the lunar environment before sending astronaut Artemis program.
Blue Ghost will spend the next sixteen days in the moon’s orbit, if everything is planning. It will take additional burns to rotate its path around the nearest neighbors on the ground, then try to land in the Mare Crisium (“Sea of Crisis”) on the nearby side of the moon on March 2.
Success will be historical. So far, only one private company, Houston -based intuitive machines, have achieved a spacecraft on the moon. This teacher came in February 2024, when a spacecraft is called Odysseus It fell near the southern poleAlso on a mission supported by ClPs.
Selfie Blue Ghost Lunar-PBIT image shows the Lander and X-Band Atenna (left), as well as the NASA LEXI (right). | Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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Blue Ghost did not take the trip alone last month; SteadfastnessThe Moner Moon was raised by ISPace, which is based in Tokyo, on the same falcon 9. However, the path of flexibility to the moon is longer and more circle than Blue Ghost’s, however; The Japanese landing is expected to reach the orbit of the moon about 3.5 months from now.
Flexibility, which does not carry any NASA’s loads, is the second moon in ISPace. The first successfully arrived at the orbit of the moon in March 2023 It was crashed during the attempt to land After a month after the edge of the hole was mixed.
There are more moon procedures soon. The intuitive machines are scheduled to release their second lunar landing, AthensOn February 26, also on a Falcon 9. Athena’s journey is supported by ClPs as well.
