As soon as February, the lunar landing score leaves from the Kennedy NASA space center on the way to the Moon, which carries tools that could explore what is only under the surface. The only two months after a year, it will be the third mission, having set off to the road to the moon still in 2025. If 2024 2025 is the year of doubling. Well, if only Trump And move the focus to Mars under the direction of Elon Mask, discarding the entire temporary scale. But while it should be a tense year for the moon.
Last year, Peregrine Lander 'Astrobotics began, noting the first of several missions, headed by companies operating within the framework of multimillion -dollar contracts as part of the Lunar Payload NASA (CLPS) production program. Peregrin ultimately After the fuel leak after starting, but in just a few weeks, intuitive cars were launched and On the moon is the first for a private spaceship. (Odysseus But its beneficial loads could still collect and transfer some data).
Now, quickly, this year, NASA has half a dozen CLPS missions according to their schedule. The first of them, Blue Ghost Mission from Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15 on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The same rocket was also wore a lunar landing made by the Japanese ISPACE company, which makes Endeavour, Hakuto-R.
It is expected that Lander's Firefly, Blue Ghost, will be the first to arrive on the moon with the date of landing on the target landing on March 2 in the Crisium Crisium area. A sunny spacecraft 6.6 feet high has 10 scientific payloads for NASA and other partners. This includes the new Dust Shield system to demonstrate how future missions can prevent the accumulation of particles on a spaceship, tools for testing samples and a global navigation system (GNSS) navigation based on a radiation computers. “The purpose of the mission is to explore the heat stream from the lunar internal interior, the interaction with the surface of the plum, (and) the bark of electric and magnetic fields,” NASA says. “It will also take x -ray images of the earth's magnetosphere.”
Sustainability, Ispace Lander, accepts another, low energy And it will not reach its site, Mare Frigoris, until the end of May or June. This craft has a micro -rover called on board, which is designed to study, collect surface and relay materials. In addition to the camera and shovel, Tornious has a tiny modeling house – in particular, “”Swedish artist Michael Genberg. Pauler carries water electrical equipment, a deep -cosmic radiation probe and a food production experiment module. (And as we could forget, it also contains a commemorative rafting plate from the scientific and research institute of the Bandai Namko, created in the style of the “Cathedral of the Universal Age” of the Gandama franchise).
The Intuitive Machines, the company that last year released the first commercial landing on the moon with its Odysseus craft, is planned to launch its second CLPS mission next month or so, in late February. IM-2 NOVA-C LANDER, called Athena, goes to the lunar southern pole with an exercise of a meter length and a mass spectrometer for an experiment on NASA polar resources (Prime-1). Its purpose is to demonstrate the implementation of drilling for samples and analyze these samples in place for things such as water. It will also serve as Rideshare for the lunar pioneer of NASA, a small orbital apparatus, which “will study the shape, abundance and distribution of lunar water and its attitude to geology.”
In addition to Prime-1 tools, Athena will transport a laser retroflative massif, an intuitively understandable hopper with a micro-nova, described as “a driving drone that unfolds from the nova-C and hops through the lunar communication system“ Network in the box ”made by Nokia. Both companies plan to configure the first cellular network of the moon, which is “designed for processing a surface connection between landowners and vehicles, carrying streaming of high -clay, communication and control and telemetry.”
There is a chance to Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 1 Lunar Lander will go on the first trip to the moon as soon as spring or summer. John Kuluris, senior vice -president of Blue Origin, said in an interview with In March last year, “we expect to land on the moon from 12 to 16 months from today.” At that time, the company had not yet launched its new Glenn missile, which will become a car for this mission – even once, so this requirement had no great weight. But after many, many delays, In mid -January.
NASA revealed, in the FCC statement discovered Back in August, he chose Lander Blue Origin to bring the camera, stereo chambers for studying the surface of the lunar train (scalps), to the south pole of the moon this year as part of the CLPS program. In the statement, NASA notes that this should be done before 2025 is over, since the data collected by the landing tool will help inform plans for the first crew of Artemis Moon Landing. The beneficial loads on the scalps were flying on other CLPS missions, but the Blue Origin's Mark 1 Lander thrust level is closer to the scale of the planting system per person will use for astronauts.
Blue origin is said in another In the same month when his demonstration lunar mission, Pathfinder, could run already in March 2025, Spachenews It is reported do not be surprised if this really happens much later.
The next CLPS mission after this is not expected to fall, when an astrobotic receives another blow to landing on the moon. This time he will send his larger Gryffin Lander to the region near the South Pole. Initially, it was assumed that the mission of 1 Griffin would carry NASA volatile substances, exploring polar intelligence (Viper), but This project at the end of last year from delays and cost growth. Halfer Astrobotic will not appear on the moon empty -handed. He will have a tiny solar pie in tow, as well as a laser retroleavetor massif in order to accurately determine the location of the Lander.
We can see the third intuitive mission of cars before the end of this year. The company and NASA are watching at the end of 2025 or early 2026 to launch IM-3, which will provide a set of tools oriented to the study of the magnetic and plasma properties of the gamma-moon vortex, the region with its own “mini-machine-sphere. The rover, called the mobile autonomous platform for the search (Mapp) will also be on board, plus the trio of Small Rovers from the project of cooperative autonomous distributed robotic studies (CADRA), which will demonstrate mainly autonomous robots working together. The laser retroleavent of the European Space Agency will also fly with IM-3, as well as Monitor Lunar Space Environment, from South Korea of Korea of astronomy and space science (KASI).
Although this year will probably attract great activity on the moon and around it, there is one thing that we will not see there yet – people. NASA several times adjusted the schedule of the mission of Artemis In December, he promotes the first flight with the crew, Artemis II, until April 2026. The agency previously stated that it was acting for September 2025. Launch until the middle of 2027.