Return to the Moon

Impressive images from the Blue Ghost ship that is going to land on the moon on March 2, they are images of the orbit it is taking before landing, there are 1 days left if nothing happens because there can always be some change in the programming at the last minute, but in principle this landing would be on March 2.

This is a ship from the United States, from a private company that is within the NASA Artemis program and whose purpose would be to serve as cargo transport, that is, to create a line of cargo transport to the moon, since the Artemis program aims to install a permanent base on the moon and of course if you want to have a permanent base on the moon it needs periodic supplies.

This company and this module is one of those that are within that commercial program, there are more, and they are going to broadcast live on the NASA channel, they will broadcast the landing live, let's hope it goes well because lately the landings on the moon except the Chinese who do it the first time and wonderfully, the others have had quite a few problems, let's hope that this time everything goes well.

No matter how many times we have seen the moon in different films, it is always interesting and logically the cameras have increasingly more resolution, this 10-times accelerated video was taken about 100 km above the lunar surface showing the far side of the moon and a top-down view of the thrusters that Blue Ghost has and the radiator panels on each side wrote the private company based in Texas.

The radiator panels nominally move to protect the Blue Ghost subsystems from external temperatures. Remember that the module carries 10 scientific and technological instruments for NASA that will take measurements from the “crisium sea” or crisis sea, which is a large impact basin filled with basalt on the near side of the moon, on the visible side.

It is the first of three missions that the company has contracted for NASA, the second is scheduled for 2026 to place a lander on the far side of the moon and the third, in 2028, a Rover to explore the mysterious domes of Gruithuisen also on the visible side.

The three missions will provide invaluable data to help NASA evaluate the prospects for long-term lunar habitability, such as a permanent lunar base, there is great expectation, landing on the moon remains an extremely difficult task as we have seen in some failed attempts by different countries and private companies in recent months. There is no atmosphere to provide natural resistance to help the spacecraft descend and brake with a parachute.

The descent can only be controlled by thrusters, the terrain is also hard and rugged which makes the margins of error in the descent speed extremely narrow, if everything goes as planned the lander will operate its scientific payload for a full lunar day, that is, 14 Earth days to capture even a solar eclipse when the earth passes in front of the sun and a lunar sunset.

Its operation will continue for several hours during the lunar night before turning off forever, this is normal in lunar missions. Let's not remember that the lunar night reaches temperatures below 246 degrees Celsius below zero and it is a challenge to keep the spacecraft operational during that transition, obviously as long as the spacecraft manages to land.

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