Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Module landed on the Moon
2. Mar 2025 at 9:56 I Updated at 10:08
The module will collect samples for NASA.
Austin. On Sunday, the Blue Ghost module landed on Sunday Firefly Aerospace.
It became only the second such facility of a private company that successfully reached the surface of the natural satellite Earth.
The machine will collect samples of monthly dust, measure the temperature below the surface and perform other experiments for the US National Aviation and Space Authority (NASA).
The module with a height of about two meters and the width of three to the surface of the Moon reached at 9:35 CET in the area called « Mare Crisium », which is a pelvis with a diameter of approximately 500 kilometers.
Here, in the next two weeks, it has a device on board, for example, a drill or a vacuum cleaner, to conduct a number of experiments to explore the geology of the month in more detail, but it is also necessary to facilitate other astronauts' trips to it.
The Blue Ghost module missed in mid -January by starting a cosmodrome on Cape Canaveral, on February 13, then the machine entered orbit around a month from where he shot shots of the lunar surface.
Private American company sent another landing module to a month Read
On Sunday he successfully reached the surface of the natural Earth satellite and according to the management of the mission is « stable ». Sent the first photos.
A year ago, the first private company for a month was carried out by the Texas company Intuitive Machines.
Soon, however, a device called Odyseus broke the leg, and the energy of the module ran out significantly before the company planned.
Now the second module of Athena is heading for the Moon, which should land on his South Pole on March 6. With the help of a drone, one of the craters there is to explore.
