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 range | X (carrier frequency - 8493.2 МГц) S (carrier frequency - 2251.11408 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 |
Spacecraft signal spectrogram
Spectrograms of Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft signal obtained from observations of the RT-13 radio telescope at Zelenchukskaya observatory on February 20 and March 2, 2025.
The spectrogram of the S-band transmitter signal of the Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft during one of the sessions of radio telemetry observations. The yellow line indicates the model signal at the frequency of 2251.11408 MHz, emitted from the center of the Moon.
The spectrogram of the S-band transmitter signal of the Blue Ghost M1 spacecraft during one of the sessions of radio telemetry observations. The yellow line indicates the model signal at 2251.11408 MHz emitted from the assumed landing site. The dotted white line indicates the moment of landing.
Results
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