In Lunar Orbit! Blue Ghost Week 5 Update | Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace update: "There are ten days left in our lunar roadtrip and Blue Ghost has traveled 2.2 million miles so far and downlinked 18.7 GB of data! Our Ghost Riders have already accomplished so many milestones, but there are still more to come. Catch our week 5 update on what's next as we prepare to land on the Moon on March 2."
Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. This is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Blue Ghost is seeking to land in Mare Crisium to deliver ten NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon. They will perform numerous science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.
Learn more: https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/
NASA continues to work with multiple American companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the agency’s CLPS initiative. This pool of companies may bid on contracts for end-to-end lunar delivery services, including payload integration and operations, launching from Earth, and landing on the surface of the Moon.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-services
Duration: 7 minutes
Release Date: Feb. 20, 2025
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