Blue Ghost Mission 1: Lunar PlanetVac Surface Operations | Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace Update: "Just over four days on the Moon's surface and Blue Ghost is checking off several science milestones! Eight out of ten NASA payloads, including LPV, EDS, NGLR, RAC, RadPC, LuGRE, LISTER, and SCALPSS, have already met their mission objectives with more to come. Lunar PlanetVac for example successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas. Congrats to the Honeybee Robotics and NASA team!"
Follow along for more BGM1 updates: https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/
This is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Blue Ghost Mission 1 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 about NASA's CLPS Program:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-services
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