Washington – A commercial lunar lander has entered the orbit around the moon, while the other launched at the same time has performed a lunar flyb for the establishment of a later return.
On February 13, the firefly Aerospace confirmed that its blue ghost 1 lander entered the orbit around the moon, 4 minutes, 15 seconds of response control system displayed 15-second of the thrusters, which starts from Eastern at 8:51 pm Happened.
The company did not disclose the nuances about the class, but amateur trackers, monitoring their radio signals, estimated that the spacecraft is 150 and 5,673 km above the moon. Jugnu said that the lander would do additional exercises to go into a circular orbit to prepare for their landing efforts.
The landing has been scheduled for East 2 March at 3:45 pm, the company and NASA announced on 14 February. The Blue Ghost 1 agency’s commercial Lunar Palor Services (CLPS) is carrying 10 NASA payloads through the program, aimed at working on the landing site near the mare, through the end of lunar day several hours after the Crisium and Sunset.
Blue Ghost 1 launched Falcon 9 on 15 January, which shares the launch with Lunner Lander from Japanese company Space. The flexibility of the company’s second lander mission performed a lunar flyb on 14 February, which passes through the eastern at 5:43 am about 8,400 km from the lunar surface.
The flexibility is following a low-energy trajectory for the moon, one that will take is 1.1 million kilometers away from the Earth, before returning to May to burn a lunar class in a lunar orbit in early May. After this, a landing effort will be made in the Moon’s mare frigoris region, although the Space has not revealed a planned landing date.
“I feel very confident about the flexibility lander, who have consistently achieved milestones and are on track for success, and our employees have carefully prepared for this influential flyb of the moon,” the founder of the steel and Chief Executive Officer Takesi Hakmada said, “In a statement.
Both the firefly aerospace and the steel have underlined the milestone and success criteria for their lander missions. For firefly, lunar orbital insertion was 10Wan From the launch to the operation of the lander after sunset on the lunar surface from the launch of 17 miles. Lunar was a fifth part of 10 milestones for flyb.com by flexibility, from preparation of pre-launch to landing “status of the stable system” after landing.
Blue Ghost 1 can work on the lunar surface at the same time as another commercial lander. Inteuative machines are preparing to launch their IM-2 Lunar Lander Mission on 26 February at the beginning of a four-day window. IM-2, like the company’s IM-1 lander mission a year ago, is taking a more straight route to the moon. Steve Altemus, Chief Executive Officer of Inteautive Machies, told CNBC February 7 that a launch in the window any day will set up a landing in the Mons Mutton region near the South Pole Moon on 6 March.
