Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is scheduled to launch this Wednesday, January 15, as part of the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis mission NASA Science and Technology will take you to the moon.
The mission will take off on SpaceX’s Falcon 8 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to NASA.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander will spend about 45 days in transit after liftoff before landing on the lunar surface in early March.
Additionally, the lander will carry 10 NASA science probes to further our understanding of the Moon’s atmosphere.
As part of the agency’s Moon-to-Mars exploration approach, it will also help prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface.
Additionally, on this flight, science investigations aimed to develop lunar surface drilling technology, regolith sample collection capabilities, global navigation satellite system capabilities, radiation-tolerant computing, and lunar dust mitigation methods. To test and demonstrate.
By providing insight into how space weather and other cosmic forces affect Earth, the data obtained can benefit humans on Earth.