Firefly Aerospace announced yesterday that its Blue Ghost spacecraft completed a 3 minute, 18 second burn at 3:09 am, moving the lander from a high elliptical orbit to a much lower elliptical orbit around the Moon.
Shortly after this took place, Blue Ghost captured incredible views of the Moon’s far side, about 75 mi (120 km) above the surface. Communications will be disrupted as it goes around the far side, but as it makes its way to the near side, the team will continue to finalize their plan for the next maneuver that will get Blue Ghost even closer to the lunar surface and on track for landing on March 2.
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Now four weeks into the mission, Blue Ghost has downlinked more than 15 GB of data, including NASA science data, from record-breaking GNSS signals to magnetic field measurements, that is already unlocking insights for the future of space exploration,” said Firefly Aerospace.
