For the second time, a commercial landing was successful in a successful landing on the moon. About six weeks after the start, the “Blue Ghost” probe on Sunday set up on the earth around 9.35 am on the earth.
The “Blue Ghost”, which was about two meters high and three meters wide in January, began with the help of a “Falcon 9” rocket from the SpaceX Space Company of Tech Billionaire Elon Musk from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in the US Florida. The “resilience” of the Japanese start-up ISPACE had also started. However, this should fly on a different track to the moon and only arrive there in a few months.
Landing in Lowlanden Mare Crision
“Blue Ghost” landed in the SO -Called Mare Crisium, a low level with a diameter of approximately 500 kilometers. On board, the Moonland has materials and instruments for ten scientific studies from NASA, with which the earth must be examined nasty for about two weeks.
Among other things, drilling in the surface to remove samples must be drilled. With the help of the information, the planned manned missions must be prepared for the moon. The US Room Trip Authority is currently planting the first manned lunar landing for 2027 for 2027.
After about two weeks, ie a whole day on the moon, the sun will undergo in the area. “Blue Ghost” is intended to take photos of this spectacle and to provide data about how the loose rock on the moon reacts to the influence of the sun in the dusk.
The mission called “Ghost Riders in the Sky” (“Ghost Rider in Heaven”) is the first lunar mission of the Company Firefly Aerospace based in Texas (US), which has so far developed mainly support missiles.
NASA wants to collect cheaply
“Blue Ghost” is part of the NASA program CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payoad Services). With this program, the US Room Trip Authority wants to collect as much knowledge as possible on a way back to the Moon by assigning contracts for lunar landings to private companies and working with them. A total of around $ 2.6 billion (around 2.4 billion euros) is estimated for the CLPS program by 2028.
Moon landing technically much demanding
In February 2024, the intuitive machinery company with the Lander “Nova-C” succeeded the first commercial landing on the moon. However, when putting on, the lander was destroyed. However, data can still be collected. Moon landings are considered technically very demanding and often go wrong.
It was only on Wednesday that the company had sent intuitive machines from a second Moonlander. “Athena” would put the earth on the earth at the earliest on Thursday.
Source: Krone
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