Space researchers can enjoy another teacher: Firefly spacecraft on the moon has succeeded on the moon. The spacecraft, which corresponds to the size of a built -in car, provided 10 scientific devices and used 21 smooth landing engineers. The landing unit reached its destination in the huge swimming pool called Mare Crisium in the northeastern part of the moon Heaven News.
Firefly Blue Ghost, which has four feet, has special tools, such as a vacuum to collect moon powder and training that can measure temperatures up to 3 meters. It also delivers a device to help remove the port on the decades -ago moon, was a serious problem of the Apollo spacecraft.
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The first private company was capable of fine and accurate landing on the moon, meaning that the car did not flip or suffer from damage.
The task was launched in mid -January and the device will work for two weeks. In the past, only five countries achieved a soft drop: the Soviet Union at the time, the United States, China, India and Japan.
Joel Kerns, deputy director of NASA, said this type of site is “very high in the scientific interest.” He added that this moment will be “in history books.”
Firefly is the second private company that succeeded on the moon after the landing unit in the intuitive machines last year, and also tried to do this, although this landing was not perfect.
With the support of NASA and Artemis Moon, private companies play a major role in the Modern Moon competition. The mission of the moon launched by Firefly is one of the three active projects. NASA paid $ 101 million to transport and $ 44 million on scientific and technological tools. Nicolas Fox, head of the NASA Scientific Mission Directorate, said that the goal is to create a sustainable commercial satellite economy led by American companies.
In the coming weeks, two other units will reach the moon, and both Elon Musk's Spacex and Jeff Bezos Blue Orige are working in the lunar tasks following the return of American astronauts to the moon by 2027 since 1972.
The moon is already full of different remnants of failure, and NASA is preparing to start two of the private moon every year, even if some tasks have not succeeded. Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly, stressed that private companies are working with close budgets and automatic space shots that must land alone, while APOLLO missions began with huge budgets and experienced astronauts.
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