Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost captured a stunning up-close view of the Moon’s surface during its most recent flyby. The spacecraft performed a 16-second burn with its RCS thrusters to enter a near-circular low lunar orbit.
What’s next? A 19-second Descent Orbit Insertion at our 100-km perilune to begin its descent to Blue Ghost’s final destination, Mare Crisium, on March 2. After landing, Firefly expects to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the Moon’s horizon on March 14. Blue Ghost is then set to capture the lunar sunset on March 16 in a bid to gather data on how lunar dust levitates due to solar influences and creates a lunar horizon glow first documented by Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17.
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and has nearly completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit ahead of landing on March 2. As Blue Ghost continues its journey to the Moon, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way and stay tuned for the joint Firefly and NASA landing livestream, scheduled to begin at 1:30 a.m. CST,” said the company.
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