The first attempt by Firefly Aerospace to land on the moon was successful. A company that works with NASA as part of an agency Early in the morning on Sunday, he announced that his blue ghost gently touched the moon, and he was in an upright position and communicate with the team home. Blue Ghost landed at 3:34 East time in the region, known as the crisium of the mare. While Lander's Firefly is not the first commercial spaceship, landed on the moon, he is The first to land correctly – Odysseus intuition Machines Last year after a faster planned descent.
It is expected that Blue Ghost and NASA tools that he carries will remain in action for about 14 days of land. After that, the lunar night will begin. If everything goes in accordance with the planned plan, the landing will shoot images in the leader on the moonlit night and a few hours after the darkness falls, receiving images of high clarity of complete eclipse, lunar sunset and other points to document the exchange of moon dust. NASA also tests tools that can drill and collect samples from the surface.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 Firefly began on January 15 and reached the lunar orbit for about a month. The team claims that more than 27 GB of data has already been sent back to Earth from his trip. “Just through the transit to the moon, the Firefly mission has already delivered the largest number of scientific data to date for the CLPS NASA initiative,” said Shi Ferring, director of Firefly in technology, in statementNoting that the most difficult part of the mission is over. The company shared a photograph showing the shadow of Lander on the surface of the moon after successful landing, and joked: “Lander saw her shadow, another 2 weeks of operations!”