Blue Ghost Moon Lander of Firefly Aerospace took the first photo of a distant target.
Firefly, based in Texas, has released two photos of the month taken by Blue Ghost from Earth Orbit on Monday (January 27). One is a natural satellite, indicating a small gray dot in the sky black seas. The other is a selfie, indicating that the moon is shining on a blue ghost golden hardware.
“While Blue Ghost is in the Earth Track, we keep keeping an eye on the final destination! To the moon!” Firefly said on Monday. X posting It shared two images.
BLUE GHOST is Firefly’s first moonlander. It was released on SPACEX FALCON 9 ROCKET on January 15th. It carried the second private lifelander, the resilience built by the Japanese company ISPACE.
Blue Ghost’s Mission, which Firefly calls “Ghost Riders in the Sky”, is part of the NASA commercial month’s payload service program (CLP). Agency conducted 10 scientific experiments in a rander to collect data to support artemis program pushes to return astronauts to the moon a few years later.
So far, everything seems to be working for Blue Ghost. According to Firefly, the land remains healthy on orbit, and the schedule has completed burns on two engines. About 10 days later, the spacecraft will fire the most important engine. This is a burn -in -type injection burned on the moon course.
The trip takes about four earth days. After that, Blue Ghost spends 16 days in the track of the moon, and then tries to land in a large basin, a large basin near the moon, crisium.
The blue ghost of the solar drive is operated in the week of about two weeks on the moon, shut down a few hours after the sun sets.
The newly released monthly photo is not the first exciting image that Blue Ghost shines home. Lander also witnessed the sun’s solar eclipse and captured the beautiful blue marble of the earth.
Another lunar landing, which rose on January 15, seems to be progressing smoothly. The resilience has been the milestone on the schedule so far, According to the companyWe are preparing for the moon flybai held around February 15th.
Resilience has a longer and wider route to the moon than Blue Ghost. Japanese landing boats do not reach the track of the moon until about four months after the launch. About two weeks later, try touchdown.
Resilience is the second lunar landing device of ISPACE. The company’s first one succeeded in the moon track in March 2023, but failed one month later.
