Firefly
Aerospace’s robotic Blue Ghost lander is scheduled to land on the moon on Sunday no earlier than 3:34 a.m.
EST (0834 GMT) when it touches down on the vast Sea of
Crises (or Mare Crisium).
Watch it live here: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/firefly-blue-ghost-mission-1-lunar-landing/
The $93.3 million Blue Ghost launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 NASA experiments as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program. If all goes well, the probe will spend two weeks studying the lunar surface, but first it has to land safely. Read on for the exact timing of Blue Ghost’s moon landing and what it will do on the lunar surface.
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