With its blue Lunar Ghost module, Texas-based Firefly space has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever completed: successful landing on the surface of the surface. moon.
Debuted In JanuaryThe mission of Ghost Blue 1 touched at Mare Crisium, in the vicinity of a mountain called Mons Latreille, at 3:34 in the morning of East on Sunday, March 2. NASA Report that Lander Blue Ghost is in a stable and vertical position.
This incredible achievement shows how NASA and the United States is leading in exploring the space for the benefit of everyone, Mr. Jan Janet Petro, NASA's acting manager, said in one one. Declaration on March 2. We have learned many lessons, and the technology of technology and science on the Blue Ghost 1 of Firefly will enhance our ability not only to discover more science but also ensure the safety of our spacecraft tools to explore people in the future, both close and long.
Blue Ghost is not the first private leadership task to the Moon surface. That honor was transferred to visual machines, another company based in Texas, trying to land on the Moon in February 2024; However, its tissue falls on it on the surface and is no longer working. (The visual device will have another chance on March 6, with Athena moon -moonLaunched last month.) Other companies also tried it, but their spacecraft collapsed.
Firefly's Lander still has a lot of work before. The Blue Ghost mun is carrying 10 scientific and technological tools for NASA, which will operate on the surface in a moon day, equivalent to 14 days on Earth. Is part of NASA Artemis The program, will bring people back to the moon surface for the first time since 1972, the mission of Blue Ghost aims to learn more about the Moon environment, to support the astronauts in the future exploration of the Moon and Mars. The moment after touching the ball, Mo -Monun recorded its first images, shared by NASA and Firefly on their official accounts.
