Blue Ghost M1
A private company Firefly Aerospace mission to explore the surface of the Moon using a landing module and scientific equipment. The spacecraft was launched on January 15, 2025, as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which aims to explore lunar resources and conduct research in support of the Artemis mission.
Spacecraft features
| Nation | USA |
| Launch Date | 15 Jan 2025, 6:11 UT |
| Launch Site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA |
| Landing Mass | 1517 kg |
| Dimensions | 3.5 m x 2 m |
| Type | Lander |
| Destination | Moon |
| Scientific Instruments | 1. RAC - Regolith Adherence Characterization 2. EDS - Electrodynamic Dust Shield 3. RadPC - Radiation Tolerant Computer 4. LuGRE - Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment 5. SCALPSS- Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studie 6. LPV - Lunar PlanetVac 7. LISTER - Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity 8. NGLR - Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector 9. LMS - Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder 10. LEXI - Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager |
| Frequency band | X, S |
| Carrier frequencies of signals | 8493.2 МГц, 2251.1 МГц |
| Landing date | 2 Mar 2025, 8:34 UT |
| Landing site | 18.56°N, 61.81°E |
Observation Schedule
| Date | Window, UT | Receiver |
Frequency, MHz |
B, MHz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Feb 20 | 02:00 - 03:30 | RT-13 (Zv) | 2251.11408 | 2 |
| 2025 Mar 2 | 08:00 - 11:00 | RT-13 (Zv, Sw, Bv) | 2251.11408 | 2 |
| 2025 Mar 5 | 08:00 - 10:00 18:00 - 19:30 |
RT-13 (Zv, Sw, Bv) RT-13 (Zv, Sw) |
2251.11408 | 2 |
Spacecraft signal spectrogram
Spectrograms of the Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft signal obtained from observations of the RT-13 radio telescope at the Zelenchukskaya Observatory on February 20 and March 2, 2025 in left circular polarization.
Spectrogram of the telemetry signal of the Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The yellow line shows the spectrogram of the signal corresponding to the center of the Moon.
Spectrogram of the Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft signal during landing. The yellow line represents the spectrogram of the signal corresponding to the Blue Ghost M1 landing site. The dotted white line indicates the moment of landing.
Results
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