Nasa’s private Moon fleet to mark two landings in week, ending 50-year wait
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While in lunar orbit, Firefly's Blue Ghost lander captured imagery of the Moon's south pole on the far left. — AFP
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50 years after the last Apollo Mission, the United States returned to a lunar level last February with the landing of its first private spacecraft last February.
Now, on Sunday, two more missions are ready to follow within the same week, indicating a bold push by NASA and its industry partners to make the moon landing a part of space exploration.
The first is the Blue Gust Mission of the Fire Fly Aerospace, named “Ghost Riders in the sky”.
After launching a 45 -day journey in January, it is targeting a touchdown near Mons Little, which is a volcanic feature in the mare chasim in the northeast of the moon, at 3:34 pm US Eastern time (0834 GMT). On the way, it has captured the amazing footage of the moon, which comes close to 60 miles (100 km) from the surface.
The golden landler, about the size of the hippopotamus, picks up ten devices, which includes a lunar soil to analyze, second radiation to test tolerance computing, and the GPS -based navigation system.
Designed to work for the entire lunar day (14 Earth Day), it is expected that the Blue Goast is expected to occupy the high -definition imagination of the total eclipse on March 14, when the earth stops the sun from the horizon of the moon.
On March 16, it will record a lunar sunset, which will provide insight into how the dust is above the surface under solar influence.
Hoping drone
The advent of the Blue Goast will be chased on March 6 by the IM2 mission of intuitive machines, which will feature its land, Aitina.
Last year, intuitive machines made history as the first private company to achieve a soft landing on the moon, though the moment suffered an accident.
Come down very fast, one of the lander’s feet was trapped on the shopping surface, causing it to drop as well as rest.
This time, the company says it has made a key improvement in the hexagonal -shaped landler, which has a taller, slim profile compared to the Blue Goast, and is around the height of an adult giraffe.
Ataa boarded the Space X rocket on Wednesday, taking a more direct route toward Mons Moton – the South lunar landing site ever tried.
It has a paviliatic set of pay loads, a unique hoping drone designed to discover the underground parts of the moon by the ancient lava flow, a drill capable of digging three feet below the surface in search of ice, and three rover.
The biggest, about the size of the beagle, will connect Lander and Hopper using the Nokia cellular network in such a first demonstration.
But “Grace,” hoping drone – which is named after the computing pioneer Grace Hopper – can steal the show well if it succeeds in showing that it can rotate the moon’s treacherous regions in a way that no one can do.
NASA’s private moon fleet
The mooning on the moon offers a unique challenge due to the absence of the environment, making the parachute ineffective. Instead, the spacecraft should rely on the exact control throster burning to slow down its descent while traveling to hazardous terrain.
As long as the first successful mission of intuitive machines, only five national space agencies fulfilled the feat: Soviet Union, United States, China, India and Japan, in the same order.
Now, the United States is working to normalize private lunar missions through NASA’s $ 2.6 billion commercial lunar pay load services (CLPS) program, a public private move designed to supply hardware at a part of traditional mission costs.
These missions come at an important moment for NASA, among the speculation that it can overtake or cancel its Artemis Lunar program in favor of preferring Mars.
