Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander
1 day ago · Firefly’s lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, Jan.15, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After a 45-day cruise phase, Blue Ghost is targeted to land near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a basin approximately 340 miles wide ...
Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
13 hours ago · Carrying science and tech on Firefly Aerospace’s first CLPS or Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight for NASA, Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched at 1:11 a.m. EST aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company is targeting a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2.
Liftoff! Firefly Lunar Lander Begins Journey to the Moon
21 hours ago · At 1:11 a.m. EST SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Aboard are a suite of NASA scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS ( Commercial Lunar Payload Services ) initiative and Artemis campaign.
Blue Ghost lunar lander launches from Florida on NASA-backed …
9 hours ago · Ahead of the lunar lander is a 60-day mission to Earth's only natural satellite, where it will deploy a fleet of NASA's scientific instruments to study the moon's environment before human's return.
SpaceX Will Launch Two New Moon Landers on One Rocket: …
20 hours ago · Why did two moon landers share one rocket? ... Mare Crisium is in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon. NASA will pay Firefly $101.5 million if it takes 10 payloads to the lunar ...
SpaceX launches two lunar landers for US and Japanese …
15 hours ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick.. The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.
Two private landers head to the moon to aid future NASA …
9 hours ago · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in support of NASA’s future Artemis landing crews. The Blue Ghost and ...
SpaceX launches two moon missions on one rocket | CNN
1 day ago · Tucked inside the rocket’s bullet-shaped nose cone were the two lunar landers — hailing from two different countries. The first is Blue Ghost, a 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) lunar lander ...
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Second Artemis Lunar Lander Provider
May 19, 2023 · Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for recurring astronaut expeditions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway, a space station where crew transfer in lunar orbit.
Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's …
1 day ago · The lunar lander during the Apollo missions stood 22 feet (7 meters) tall with its landing legs deployed. The next time astronauts land on the moon will be during NASA’s Artemis 3 mission.