The Firefly Aerospace was closed on the Saturday of the Moon, after the initial nail bit of the early Sunday nail bit, the first of the three robotic sector’s first robotic lunar.
The blue Lunar Lander spent once a month after the Earth was orbeated January 9 Falcon at a rocketAustin, Texas, Texas, turning its systems and science load and testing a lot of time before going to the moon.
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Once there, spacecraft spent 16 days in Lunar Orbit, establishing his career and the spectacular view of the earth on the ground 240,000 miles away.
Now, after multiple plane disappears, to reach the predicted fall orbit, the surface of spaces ships at a height of 6.6 meters will fall. Unknown Mare Crisium – Sea of Crisis – About 3:34 AM is expected next to a mons Latreille called an ancient volcano.
Solar plants are expected to operate the full “day” day. If all goes well, it can continue to work on the power of battery for a few hours before the dark lunar night before he finally silent.
Firefly CEO JASON Kim said that blue Ghost is the last example of the commercial technology offered by the private sector. “
“On a blue blue moon, these types of moon took a billion dollars and lands behind the Moon,” said CBS news interview before starting.
“Firefly aerospace is that the moon will land on the fractions of the cost of a fixed price contract, and does it with the latest commercial technology,” he said. “As Simone Bill stuck on landing in the Olympics, we will do the same for the State of Texas, America and the world.”
The NASA paid $ 101 million to carry a $ 101 million increase in science instruments, built by $ 44 million, as part of the Moon, the agency’s Moon Trade Services (CLPS).
CLPS programs are aimed at reliving private industries to the moon, collecting data and engineering data, before the Artemis astronauts begin, this decade later around the South poles.
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“One of these days, we reach the commercial aspects of the moon,” Kim said. “There will be numerous self-durable and growing business plans. It is a great place to go frequently and test new missions to keep life in space, and also step in Mars.”
Sharing space with blue Ghost Falcon 9 Suziri was another Lander of the Moon, based on Tokyo-based Ispace, a spacecraft called “resilience”. The company sent another lander last year, but fell to the surface as a result of a glitch as a result of a glitch.
For the second attempt at ISPACE, he carried properly designated resilience to the long-energy moon and is expected to make his landing attempt in May.
Another Lunar Lander, which is known as Houston-based intuitive machines and Athena, launched last Wednesday It is expected to leave another 9 Falcon and leave on the moon on March 6.
Athena was also funded in large part of the NASA CLPS program, the company agreed to pay $ 62.5 million to lead sophisticated drill and mass spectrometer.
NASA gave Nokia $ 15 million to Nokia “Tipping Point”, test cellular communications on the moon and get a rocket for another 41 million cone “hopper”.
Firefly’s Lander below the spacecraft is an experiment to learn more about radiation tolerance computer, on earth navigation signals, experiment, lunar dust management.
“One of the basic goals of the CLPS program with NASA must be a pioneer in Artemis, which is sent to humans to the moon,” said Ray Allensworth, Firefly’s Space Vessel Program.
“So our charges are collecting data to figure out what to represent on the moon surface, to operate on the moon surface? Therefore, the data will let them know when we return to the moon.”