{"id":142576,"date":"2025-01-07T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/blue-ghost-lunar-lander-scheduled-to-launch-on-january-15th\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:41:14","slug":"blue-ghost-lunar-lander-scheduled-to-launch-on-january-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/blue-ghost-lunar-lander-scheduled-to-launch-on-january-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost Lunar Lander scheduled to launch on January 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch at approximately 1:11 AM EST, and will not only have Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost 1 lander on board, but also the Resilience lander from the Japanese robotic spacecraft firm iSpace. It will take 45 days for the craft to journey to the Moon before it spends another 14 days carrying out surface operations. There\u2019s no word on whether we\u2019ll be able to watch it take off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The Firefly lander will carry <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/lunar-science\/clps-deliveries\/to19d-firefly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 NASA payloads<\/a> to the surface. They\u2019re designed to measure various particulate compositions, thermal properties, and electromagnetic activity of both the Moon and the Earth. It\u2019ll collect data for various applications, from improving landing and takeoff procedures to learning about the Moon\u2019s resources and its history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/heliophysics\/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEXI payload<\/a> is particularly interesting \u2014 it\u2019s an x-ray machine that can read the Earth\u2019s magnetic field. NASA will use the data to see how our magnetosphere interacts with solar winds, which could ultimately help accurately detect and track solar weather patterns that cause power outages on Earth and interfere with satellite and GPS systems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">This would be NASA\u2019s second attempt to deploy such technology. It first launched the device, then known as STORM, into space in 2012. That one didn\u2019t land on the moon, however, and wasn\u2019t able to get the full picture that LEXI\u2019s wide-angle sensors will be able to capture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/7\/24338415\/firefly-blue-ghost-1-moon-landing-spacex-nasa-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch at approximately 1:11 AM EST, and will not only have Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost 1 lander on board, but also the Resilience lander from the Japanese robotic spacecraft firm iSpace. It will take 45 days for the craft to journey to the Moon before it spends another 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}