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Non-public moon spacecraft simply took a panoramic snapshot of Earth

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An uncrewed spacecraft simply snapped an iconic portrait of the blue marble from area. 

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, a personal spacecraft employed by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps round Earth proper now because it gears up for its first try at a lunar landing. 

Blue Ghost captured the Earth picture, proven beneath, throughout its second engine burn — the primary that have to be efficiently achieved with a view to get to the moon, some 239,000 miles away. The spacecraft will fly two extra weeks across the planet earlier than its Trans Lunar Injection, the maneuver that can put it on a moon-bound trajectory. 

When flight controllers fired the engines for the primary time in area days earlier than, it was emotional for the small workforce of engineers who labored on it, mentioned Ryan Cole, the engine supervisor, throughout a video replace on the mission. 

“The moment that we completed the maneuver was really special for everybody. I don’t think anybody quite believed what they were looking at for the first few seconds,” he mentioned. “Everything looks healthy right now.”

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Firefly Aerospace, an organization contracted by NASA to fly to the moon, grabbed a priceless snapshot of Earth whereas its Blue Ghost spacecraft orbited the planet.
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Blue Ghost, initially scheduled to elevate off in late 2024, is the primary NASA Business Lunar Payload Companies mission of the yr. This system has invested $2.6 billion in contracts with distributors from the non-public sector to assist ship devices to the moon and ship again essential knowledge. 

The lander was one in all two spacecraft headed to the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. Japan’s ispace Resilience lander, the corporate’s second stab at attending to the moon after a failed try in 2023, was sharing the experience. Each spacecraft separated from the rocket later that day after liftoff. 

The Firefly spacecraft is carrying 10 experiments for the area company. NASA needs to see a common cadence of moon missions to arrange for astronaut-led Artemis expeditions in 2027 or later.


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Touchdown on the moon stays onerous. The moon’s exosphere offers just about no drag to gradual a spacecraft down because it approaches the bottom. Moreover, there are not any GPS programs on the moon to assist information a craft to its touchdown spot.

As soon as Blue Ghost embarks on its moon-bound trajectory, it’s going to take 4 days for it to reach on the moon. The spacecraft will spend 16 days in lunar orbit earlier than descending to the lunar floor. It is concentrating on a touchdown on March 2.

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