Blue Ghost Private Lander reaches a sound moon

The Blue Ghost spacecraft landed on the moon, making history the first private land to achieve “successfully” achieve this achievement according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. the The Trade Airlines in Texas announced on Sunday Its landing “quietly landed on the moon in a straight and stable composition.”

This is technically the second private spacecraft that lands on the moon. Intuitive machines’ Odysseus Lander, who landed last February, was the first American spacecraft to land on the surface Overthrow.

After its own landing, Blue Ghost will now spend the full moon day (about two weeks) in conducting searches, including “underground drilling, gathering samples, X -ray photography, and dust relief experiences.” These experiments aim to provide environmental data and test techniques that will once again help NASA with the tasks of the astronaut prepared on the moon. Blue Ghost is also expected to take high -resolution images of the total eclipse on March 14, which will witness the Earth preventing the sun when watching from the moon.

“With the most difficult part of us, Firefly is looking to complete more than 14 days of surface operations, and once again raising the Sislonar commercial capabilities,” said Chia Ferring, chief technology in Firefly Aerospace. “We want to thank NASA for the covenant in the Al -Yireb team, and we look forward to providing more science data that supports future human missions to the moon and Mars.”

Blue Ghost arrived at his lunar destination after traveling 2.8 million miles a day after 27 GB of data. Then he spent two weeks revolving around the moon before landing on the second of March, falling only 100 meters from its target location within the 300 miles horse.

“This amazing achievement shows how American companies and American companies lead the way to explore space for everyone,” Janet Petro, director of acting at NASA. “We have already learned many lessons – technological and scientific demonstrations will emphasize the Firofly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 our ability to discover more sciences, but to ensure the safety of our spacecraft tools to explore human in the future – in the short and long term.”