Spacecraft beams back stunning moon video before ambitious landing
The 6.6-foot-tall lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of instruments and experiments for the space agency as NASA prepares to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This includes radiation-tolerant computing tests and sampling of the lunar regolith.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.
This geophysicist will be watching anxiously as his groundbreaking experiment careens toward the lunar surface aboard Firefly ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has a payload which will attempt to acquire a GPS signal from the moon, revolutionizing ...
Like throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye on a moving target in the next city over: that’s what it’s like trying to land a spacecraft on the moon.
MORE: In the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2, a lunar lander built just north of Austin, Texas will touchdown on the ...
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