Firefly lunar lander touches down on the moon
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
On 2 March, Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost 7 landed on the moon.
On 6 March, Intuitive Machines landed their 2nd lander on the moon. Like iM-1, this one also landed on it's side.
Both reportedly have Hi-Def Cameras.
Upcoming on Thursday, Earth will see a Lunar eclipse, and Moon will have a solar eclipse from Terra.
This will be the first time that 2 Hi-Def Cameras will be live-streaming an eclipse from the moon's surface.
Anybody recording these live streams at the moment will have first-ever footage of such, before NASA and AI have a chance to corrupt the video. Once the moment has passed, all yoou will have access to is whatever NASA and AI want you to see and think.
Critics have been complaining for decades about what NASA has obfuscated on the moon.
Will you be watching?
Quote:Sorry to have confused you.
Originally posted by THG:
I did but I seem to recall they didn't show live video of the landing while it was landing. They wanted to focus Soley on landing without incident. They wanted to get it right, to stick the landing first before worrying about anything else. The video was shared after they landed.
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Try keeping up when the adults are talking, m'kay?
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Did anybody watch?
I did but I seem to recall they didn't show live video of the landing while it was landing. They wanted to focus solely on landing without incident. They wanted to get it right, to stick the landing first before worrying about anything else. The video was shared after they landed.
I wrote the above reply to this post of yours, no other. Nor did I quote any of your other posts regarding my post. Including the one I quote now to put this response into context. I only responded to the last post I saw in the thread. The one I've quoted here.
The title of the thread is, and I quote," Firefly lunar lander touches down on the moon." Since you shrouded your question in mystery by providing no context in your post other than to ask," Did anybody watch," I was free to assume, and believe, it pertained to the thread title. What I posted was easily appended to the title. That is because my response was my perception of what was going on when the lunar lander touched down on the Moon.
Apparently, it was you who got confused. That was probably because you forgot what your last post was, and that as a stand-alone post, it had not been put into any kind of proper context. Clearly what you did was post my comment with an erroneous quote of yours. You probably did that because you come from a place of hate and not science. So, I suggest you try to be a little less sour, and remain calm so you can keep up, m'kay?
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Love it. Go Firefly
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Sunset on the Lunar Surface - Blue Ghost Mission 1
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Quote:Sunset on the Lunar Surface - Blue Ghost Mission 1
Originally posted by THG:
Love it. Go Firefly
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These might be the final images from Blue Ghost, unless the batteries miraculously survive freezing during the lunar night. Watch for one last time, maybe. It feels the same as when Firefly was canceled long ago and far away . . .
Blue Ghost carried 10 experiments for NASA under the space agency’s commercial lunar delivery program. While all objectives were met, officials said, the on-board drill could only penetrate 3 feet (1 meter) into the moon versus the 10 feet (3 meters) that had been planned.
Firefly said it will try to activate the lunar in early April following the two-week, bitter cold lunar night, although engineers are doubtful it will crank back up.
https://apnews.com/article/firefly-aerospace-blue-ghost-nasa-0bb0d0845
dfe4b27a5affa52912fa8dc
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I haven't read up on and still haven't so I did not hear the batteries might die so quickly. It makes one think, what the fuck; poor planning? Or, maybe I should do the research. Still, it is Firefly and it is a great first step.
Yippee!
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Quote:Blue Ghost did its job, and Firefly Aerospace got paid, which means it's time for the people involved to move on to a new mission rather than fiddle with the old mission. It's over. What is next:
Originally posted by THG:
I haven't read up on and still haven't so I did not hear the batteries might die so quickly. It makes one think, what the fuck; poor planning? Or, maybe I should do the research. Still, it is Firefly and it is a great first step.
Yippee!
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Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace awarded Department of Defense contract
By Karoline Leonard
Austin American-Statesman
Published 3:04 p.m. CT April 8, 2025 | Updated 3:31 p.m. CT April 8, 2025
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/technology/2025/04/08/firefly-aer
ospace-cedar-park-department-defense/82990575007/
Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace announced Monday that it has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Defense Department to perform a responsive on-orbit mission using its spacecraft.
The mission is part of the Defense Innovation Unit, or DIU, Sinequone Project, a Defense Department initiative aimed at prototyping the use of commercial launch and orbital transfer systems to provide cost-effective, responsive access beyond geosynchronous orbits. These orbits, commonly referred to as xGEO, extend beyond Earth-centered orbits that have an orbital period matching Earth's rotation.
For the mission, Firefly's Elytra spacecraft will serve as a space maneuver vehicle, performing a series of tasks and hosting a suite of government payloads. The mission is set to launch as early as 2027.
A group marks Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar landing last month at a watch party at Haute Spot in Cedar Park. The Cedar Park-based Firefly has landed a new Defense Department contract for an orbital mission.
“Firefly has proven our ability to rapidly and reliably launch, land and operate in space as we continue to execute bold missions from (low Earth orbit) to lunar orbit and beyond,” said Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace. “This national security mission will further demonstrate our ability to perform responsive on-orbit tasks when and where our customers need them with our highly maneuverable Elytra orbital vehicle."
Firefly's multimission orbital vehicle Elytra's main engine, known as Spectre, was recently proven when Firefly became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful moon landing in early March.
Firefly successfully landed its Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the moon's surface on March 2, and it then operated 10 NASA-backed scientific and technological instruments over the period of one lunar day, equivalent to about 14 days on Earth.
According to Kim, Elytra will be equipped with the same systems used in the Blue Ghost landing — including the reaction control system thrusters that successfully performed Blue Ghost's final descent to the moon — for the Sinequone mission.
Along with its successful moon landing last month, Firefly was recently awarded an $8.2 million grant from the Texas Space Commission for spacecraft clean room space, test facilities and infrastructure support. According to Firefly, the Texas Space Commission gift is aiding Firefly's ability to mass produce Elytra in higher quantities at a lower cost.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace awarded Department of Defense contract, good post SECOND.
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'We learned so much that we didn't know': Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander mission was full of surprises
By Leonard David | April 26, 2025
"So there's so much new discovery that we found and we can pass that forward to other CLPS missions." [CLPS = Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative or in other words, Space Truckers, same as Firefly]
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/we-learned
-so-much-that-we-didnt-know-firefly-aerospaces-blue-ghost-moon-lander-mission-was-full-of-surprises
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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It pleases me to no end how well things went.
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Firefly Aerospace is living the line "You got a cargo? Don't care much what it is" from Malcolm Reynolds, the captain of the spaceship Serenity in the television show Firefly and the movie Serenity. The quote reflects Mal's mercenary and opportunistic nature, as he is more interested in making a profit than in the specific nature of the cargo.
https://www.google.com/search?q=You+got+a+cargo%3F+Don%27t+care+much+w
hat+it+is.+Malcolm+Reynolds
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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