Firefly’s Blue Ghost becomes the second private spacecraft with the moon landing

A private spacecraft reached the moon, became a second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar face.

Blue Ghost out of the ground on January 15After the US firefly aerospace was launched with the intent of exploring sea of ​​crises, a large bamboo visible from the ground.

The project is the most recent collaboration through the space of the US Space and Private Company agency.

Intuitive machines, another company, hoping to grill Athena Spacecraft near the South Pole of the month in the next few days.

Intuitive is the first private company to achieve a lunar landing. Its spacecraft Odysseus has reached the month of 22 February last year.

However, the mission is shortly while the spacecraft reaches the slope of a crater, breaks some landing gear and filled.

The blue ghost touches the smooth smooth, which has been Orbit the month in the last two weeks.

Firefly’s headquarters in Texas are separated by cheering and applause when they told their landing successfully.

Dr Simeon Barber, a scientific researcher from the open university, said that Blue Ghost is the first successful private activity of the month, as the vehicle is not intact and reproduce.

He relates BBC breakfast: “(They) show a technology for landing on the face of the moon, the class that is forgotten with apollouts above (lunar) surface.”

The significance of the month of many private companies, Dr Barber said, using it as a launching pad for exploring the remaining space.

“By going to the moon, we’ll know how to run robotic instruments in space (and) in extreme moon environments, which in hours of hot, so much to attract.”

He told some points that people are likely to return to the lunar face and mean it has been for a lack of funding.

The last time people set the month was 19 December 1972, During Apollo 17 missions.

“Apollo missions are very successful,” Dr Barber explained. “But they ‘touch and go’ missions.”

In the past, astronauts were there for three days before leaving, because the costs were running billions of dollars. “That’s not lasting,” he said.

Dr. Barber says the belief that carrying private company companies can help reduce costs as a result of commercial competition.

It can lead to cheaper landowners and innovations that can take resources from the moon, such as water for drinking astronauts.

The first private test company to reach the moon is still a strong technology in the US, astrobotic technology.

They tried to arrive at the moon in January 2024, but their owner did not do it, because of a suspected fuel, and collapsed on earth.

the The burning genealogy means the spacecraft is separated In the final moments before entering the southern Pacific Sea.