Moon, here we are! Blue Ghost begins his descent and shares a magnificent video
Flight to the moon by Blue Ghost. © Firefly Aerospace (screenshot)
This March 2, 2025, the private company Firefly Aerospace will try its first establishment after the launch of Blue Ghost on January 15 by a Falcon 9 rocket in SpaceX. Before the fateful moment, she has just shared a beautiful video on which we observe a moving growing earth.
Blue Ghost is the name of the lunar landing of the Ghost Riders in the Sky mission commanded by NASA as part of the Artemis program. This spacecraft must deliver useful loads for scientific purposes. If he succeeds, he will be the second private landing to touch (without damage) the soil of the moon, after Odysseus Lander.
Mission Artemis in full diving in a sea of crises
The machine has just finished its third lunar orbit maneuver and now prepares its descent, scheduled for March 2, in the direction of the Sea of Crises, this oval impact basin formed 3.85 billion years ago and Perfectly visible to the naked eye, right side of the natural satellite observed from our northern hemisphere.
Blue Ghost flight plan. © Firefly Aerospace
The Sea of crises in red near the western limmbe of the Moon. © Wikipedia
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Already two other missions in preparation for 2026 and 2028
The 12 useful charges of Blue Ghost 1. © Firefly Aerospace
Two of the useful charges of Blue Ghost were designed by Blue Origin, the space company of Jeff Bezos, including Lister and LPV. The first will measure the internal heat flow of the moon when the second collect of the regolith, this dust of meteorites which covers the surface of our satellite and could serve as a raw material for the establishment of a permanent base.
Among the instruments of NASA, we can note the presence of Lexi, a X -ray instrument responsible for studying the terrestrial magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. LMS will have to characterize the structure of the lunar mantle by measuring its electric and magnetic fields.
If you want more information on the 12 instruments, we recommend you This very well informed blog.
Firefly Aerospace has already planned two other missions: one in 2026 with an instrument on the hidden side of the Moon and the Lunar Pathfinder orbiter of ESA; the other in 2028 with a rover.
