Under the $112 million contract, Firefly will attempt to place a lander on the Moon's far side and deploy a European satellite.
on Wednesday. The company will use its Blue Ghost spacecraft to place a European communications satellite in lunar orbit before delivering the two NASA payloads on the far side of the Moon as part of the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Initiative.
“Looking ahead, Firefly’s evolving line of launch vehicles and spacecraft allows us to support more advanced missions over the next 5 to 10 years,” Bill Weber, CEO of Firefly Aerospace, said in an emailed statement.The upcoming mission will first deliver the European Space Agency’s Lunar Pathfinder satellite to lunar orbit, where it will serve as a communications relay for other spacecraft on or around the Moon.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander will then carry the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night to the far side of the Moon, a pathfinder that will observe sensitive radio waves. The Moon’s far side is referred to as the “radio-quiet zone” as it faces away from Earth, and therefore our planet’s radio waves won’t interfere with astronomical observations.
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