Firefly's Moon Mission Launch
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•Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander
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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15 .
The company's first mission to the moon is scheduled to launch no earlier than Wednesday , at 1:11 a.m. ET ( 0611 GMT ) A total of 10 NASA payloads, more than any CLPS mission to date, are flying on Blue Ghost Mission 1.
EDS could be used to clean regolith buildup from the surface of solar panels, glass windows, radiators and other equipment sensitive to particle accumulation.
SCALPSS will study the effects of spacecraft on lunar regolith.
The next time astronauts will land on the moon will be during NASA ’s Artemis 3 mission.
LISTER mission manager Mike Selby hopes the instrument will be included on future missions to other locations around the moon.
The Radiation Tolerant Computer System (RadPC) will remain active to take measurements throughout Blue Ghost’s entire mission.
The Lunar PlanetVac ( LPV ) will be used to collect lunar regolith samples using a novel pneumatic procedure powered by compressed gas.
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