After the time of more than fifty years has passed between the previous Apollo Mission and the United States returning to the lunar surface, the private lander touched for the first time in the last February.
Now, since Sunday, two more missions have been determined to follow within a week, marking an adventure by NASA and its industry partners to make the moon landing a regular part of space exploration.
The first Jugnu aerospace is the Blue Ghost Mission 1, named “Ghost Riders in the Sky”.
After launching on a 45-day visit in January, it is targeting the touchdown near Mons Latreil, which has a volcanic feature in the Mare Crisium on the North-East of the Moon, at 3:34 pm at US Eastern Time (0834 GMT). On the way, it has captured stunning footage of the moon, which is coming as 60 miles (100 km) above the surface.
Golden lander, about the size of the hippopotamus, carries ten tools, in which one to analyze a lunar soil, the other to test the radiation-toreastive computing, and one tests the GPS-based navigation system.
Designed to work for a full lunar day (14 Earth days), the Blue Ghost is expected to capture the imagination of the total eclipse on 14 March, when the Earth blocks the Sun from the horizon of the moon.
On 16 March, it will record a lunar sunset, in which insight will be offered how the dust moves above the surface under solar effects – Apollo Astronaut Uurannan form the first dysented lunar horizon gloss.
– Hoping drone –
The arrival of Blue Ghost will be followed by the IM-2 mission of intelligence machines on 6 March, which will feature its lander, athana.
Last year, spontaneous machines made history as the first private company to receive a soft landing on the moon, although this moment was angry with an accident.
Getting down very fast, one of the lunar surface from the lander’s feet, lifting it up and resting it sideways – limited the ability to generate solar energy and shorten the mission.
This time, the company says that it has made significant improvements in a hexagonal -shaped lander, with a long, slimmer profile compared to the blue ghost, and is around the height of an adult giraffe.
Ethena on Wednesday rode on a SpaceX rocket and adopted another straight route towards Mons Mutton – the southern lunar landing site once tried.
It carries an ambitious set of payload, including a unique hoping drone designed to detect the underground route of the moon carved by ancient lava flow, which is a drill capable of digging three feet below the surface in search of ice, and three rovers.
The largest about the size of a beagle, the first-will connect with landers and hoppers using the Nokia cellular network in his performance.
But “Grace,” Hopping Drone – was named after computing the Pioneer Grace Hopper – if it is successful in showing it can steal the show well, it can navigate the Moon’s treacherous terrain.
– NASA’s private moon fleet –
Descending on the moon presents unique challenges due to the absence of an environment, making parachutes ineffective. Instead, the spacecraft should rely on an accurately controlled thorster burn to slow down its offspring, navigating the dangerous terrain.
Until the first successful mission of intuitive machines, only five national space agencies fulfilled this feat: the Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and Japan, in that order.
Now, the United States is working to regularize private lunar missions through NASA’s $ 2.6 billion commercial Lunar Palor Services (CLPS) program, a public-private initiative designed to give hardware on the surface at a fraction of traditional mission costs.
These missions come at an important moment to NASA, amidst anticipating that it can return or cancel its Artemis Chandra program in favor of prioritizing Mars exploration – a major target of both President Donald Trump and his close advisor, SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
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