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Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully launches from Florida's Space Coast, moon landing expected March 2


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Published in Science and Technology on Thursday, January 16th 2025 at 7:02 GMT by MSN   Print publication without navigation

  • NASA's newest mission to the moon successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning.

Firefly Aerospace successfully launched its Blue Ghost Mission 1 from Florida's Space Coast, marking a significant milestone in lunar exploration. The mission, which took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, aims to deliver a suite of NASA payloads to the Moon's surface. This launch is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, which seeks to foster a lunar economy by contracting private companies to send scientific and technological experiments to the Moon. The spacecraft is expected to land on the Moon in March 2024, carrying instruments to study the lunar environment, including radiation levels, surface composition, and potential resources like water ice. This mission not only represents a step forward in lunar science but also underscores the growing role of commercial entities in space exploration.

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