Firefly’s Blue Ghost surgery began his journey to the moon a little over a week ago, and the mission had already overpassed stellar moments from the cosmos. In addition to controlling a list of critical milestones, Blue Ghost also captured a classic photo of the Earth and captured a short moment of darkness as the earth gleamed the sun.
A blue ghost launched on Wednesday, January 15, on Rocket SpaceX Falcon 9Led by the Kennedy Space Center in Florida towards the Moon. The mission, called “Ghost Riders in the Sky”, will spend 45 days traveling through space before trying a mild landing on the lunar surface.
Shortly after takeoff, Blue Ghost captured its first image of space. The image shows the upper deck of the landing, with the X-band antenna and the payload of NASA from NASA visible under a bright flame light of the light of the sun.
Six of Blue Ghost’s payloads already send initial data back to Earth, while one payload, Lugre, has begun its scientific operations, according to Firefly Aerospace statement. “Developed by the Italian Space Agency, Lugre tracks GPS and Galileo satellites signals during our transit from land to moon to test acquisition and use signal on the way,” wrote the company.
On January 18, the team at Firefly arranged Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, igniting the repulsions and main engines of the landing in space for the first time. The engine injury brought the spacecraft closer to the ground in preparation for its next maneuvers.
As it orbits the Earth, Blue Ghost captured an impressive eclipse of space. But rather than seeing the moon wedge between us and the sun, the alter looked at the earth briefly blocking the light of the sun.
Blue Ghost is set to orbit the ground for 25 days before performing a engine injury to put it on a trajectory toward the moon. Blue Ghost will spend four days on the way to the Moon, and another 16 orbiting the Earth’s satellite before trying to land on its dust surface.
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The spaceship captured astonishingly impressive views of our planet during a second engine burning. The altercase remains about two weeks in the orbit of the earth, and it takes advantage of that time
After it reaches the moon, Blue Ghost targets Mare Crisium, the location of an ancient asteroid impact that once filled with a basalt lava. The basalts in Mare Crisium are between 2.5 and 3.3 billion years, according to NASA. The launder is packed with 10 scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and collect data to support future human missions to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
The moon is a busy place, with more of these business travel scheduled this year, including Ispace’s Resilience, which launched the Moon along with Blue Ghost but is ready to reach the lunar surface after a few months.