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More than fifty years passed to the moon surface between the last Apollo mission and the return of the United States when the first private lander landed last February.
From Sunday, two other missions will follow within a week and a brave thrust of NASA and its industry partners to make moon landings a routine part of space research.
In the first place is the Blue Ghost Mission 1 of Firefly Aerospace with the nickname “Ghost Riders in the sky”.
After the start in January on a 45-day trip, it is aimed at TouchDown near Mons Latreille, a volcanic feature in Mare Crisium on the northeast of the moon near side, at 3:34 a.m. US Ostzeit (0834 GMT). On the way it has captured breathtaking film material of the moon and is up to 100 kilometers above the surface.
The golden lander, approximately the size of a hippopotamus, wears ten instruments, including one to analyze the moon floor, another to test ray tolerant computers and a GPS-based navigation system.
Blue Ghost was developed for a full lunar day (14 earthly days) and is expected to capture high -resolution images of a total solar eclipse on March 14th when the earth blocks the sun from the horizon of the moon.
On March 16 there will be a moon sunset and insights into the way dust floats under the sun’s influence over the surface and creates the mysterious lunar horizon glow, which was first documented by the Apollo Astronaut Eugene Cernan.
– Hoping drone –
The arrival of Blue Ghost will be pursued by the IM-2 mission of the intuitive machines with his Landerin Athena on March 6th.
Last year, intuitive machines were the first private company that achieved a soft landing on the moon, although the moment was alleviated by a misfortune.
As one of the feet of the landing fell too quickly on the moon surface, overturned it and lets it rest on the side – the ability to generate solar energy and cut the mission briefly.
This time the company announced that it has made important improvements to the hexagonal -shaped landing land that has a larger, slimmer profile than Blue Ghost and is around the height of an adult giraffe.
Athena started on board a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday and took a more direct way towards Mons Mouton -the southernmost Lunar -Landsplatz who has ever tried.
It bears an ambitious set of payloads, including a unique hopping drone, with which the underground passages of the moon are to be carved by old lava flows, a drill that is able to dig three feet under the surface in search of ice and three rovers.
The biggest, about the size of a beagle, is connected to a Nokia mobile radio network in a unique demonstration with the landing and the funnel.
