New images released by NASA have revealed the landing site of an American private aerospace company’s spacecraft during its recent ambitious mission to the lunar surface.
Within just a few hours of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 touching down on the Moon, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spotted the spacecraft in new imagery that shows it resting on the lunar surface on March 2.
In the new LRO photos, the Blue Ghost lander appears as little more than a bright pinpoint against the darker cratered lunar landscape. The NASA images were taken on the same afternoon the spacecraft landed, following Blue Ghost’s arrival at 3:34 a.m. Eastern Time earlier that morning.
The successful landing offers a waypoint along NASA’s current path toward returning crewed missions to the lunar surface with its Artemis program, an effort in which its commercial partners will play a significant role.
A Blue Ghost on the Moon
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 represents the aerospace company’s first lunar landing and its initial delivery for its partners at NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Launched on January…more
Source thedebrief.org
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