Human beings are again ‘over the moon’, as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost uncrewed lander touches down on the Moon’s surface, inaugurating one of the busiest seasons of Lunar exploration.
And the private spacecraft is already beaming home spectacular views of Earth from the lunar surface, after its historic landing.
Space.com reported:
Firefly Aerospace unveiled the first image acquired by the Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken by S-band imagery. Higher resolution X-band imagery expected in the next few hours when the lander deploys its main antenna.
“Firefly opted to forgo a live video stream of the landing from the Blue Ghost to free up communications bandwidth for telemetry and for several instruments that were in action during the descent, including a critical hazard avoidance system that helped the lander avoid at least two potentially dangerous boulders on the surface, according to Ray Allensworth, Firefly’s spacecraft program director.”
Reuters reported:
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