by A privately built spaceship is hours of trying to land on the moon, a performance that only another company has achieved in the history of space travel.
The robot -Lander, called Blue Ghost, has been in the orbit around the moon for about two weeks and is preparing for its daring descent. The Firefly Aerospace, based in Texas, developed the spaceship, which is supposed to deliver on the surface of the moon at around 3:34 a.m.
If everything goes according to plan, Blue Ghost becomes the second privately built vehicle that successfully lands on the moon. In February 2024, another company resident in Texas, intuitive machines, wrote history when his Odysseus Lander removed a nail -bite touchdown near the southern pole of the moon.
Fireflys Blue Ghost Lunar Lander has captured a selfie with the earth.
The upcoming landing test by Firefly Aerospace is the first in a flood of robot missions to the moon in 2025. At the beginning of this week, intuitive machines started its second landing into space, with a targeted moon landing on or around March 6. A LANDER and a tiny Rover developed Japanese company, which was expected on the same rocket, on the same rocket that was expected on the same rocket is a longer Mag.
Blue Ghost aims to end up in a 350 miles wide pelvis on the nearby sunding side (on the side, which is always faced with the earth). According to NASA, the region is accepted as a place of an old asteroid impact.
At the beginning of this week, the landing beamed back with the pock -armed, crater shop, distant sides of the moon when it circled about 62 miles above the surface.
Fireflys Blue Ghost Lander recorded the film material on the other side of the moon moon on February 24th. The film material, which has picked up 10 times, was caught about 100 km above the surface of the moon.
The Blue Ghost will probably start its hourly descent to the moon shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday. NASA will send a live stream on NASA television from 2:20 a.m.
The spaceship carries 10 NASA science instruments, including one that examines the interior of the moon up to depths of up to 700 miles. Cameras take X -ray images that look back on the ground and examine how the space weather interacts with the magnetic field of the earth, while a separate camera picks up detailed photos of the lander when it descends to the moon’s surface to support future missions.
Instruments on board the landing also analyze samples of the moon floor, examine how much moon dust is on different materials, and use laser to measure the exact distance between the earth and the moon.
Blue ghost is expected to spend about two weeks to collect data about the moon surface.
Fireflys Blue Ghost Lander conquered the pictures of the southern pole of the moon during the Lunar orbit.
The mission is part of the Commercial Lunar Payoad Services Initiative of NASA, which was set up as a public-private partnership between the agency and more than a dozen US companies to deliver NASA science experiments, technology and other freight to the moon. It is part of the Artemis program of NASA, which should finally bring people back to the moon.
The agency awarded Firefly Aerospace around 101.5 million US dollars for carrying out the Blue Ghost Mission.
According to NASA, the science experiments and technological demonstrations of these missions will help the scientists to better understand the southern polar region of the moon, in which future missions are expected to be used.
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
