Overnight, @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social will attempt its 1st Moon landing. The anticipated touchdown of the Blue Ghost lander is 3:34 am EST / 0834 UTC on March 2.
Before then, brush up on the mission and what Firefly and NASA have planned while on the Moon.
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Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut Andrรฉ Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.
Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... ๐
Technicians have successfully integrated NASAโs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeโs payloadโthe telescope, instrument carrier, and two instrumentsโto the spacecraft that will deliver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function while there. ๐ญ ๐งช
The commercial imaging satellite ้ซๆฏไธๅท02ๆ (GaoJing 1-02, Superview 1-02), operated by Beijing-based SpaceView (ๅไบฌ่ชๅคฉไธๆฏไฟกๆฏๆๆฏๆ้ๅ ฌๅธ) reentered above New Orleans at 0408 UTC Dec 22 (10.08 pm CST Dec 21) heading northbound towards MS, AR, MO and was widely observed
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You may have heard NASA is delaying the Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 missions. For those who don't feel like going watching a 1.5 hour briefing to get a visual understanding of why these delays are happening, here's our @spaceflightnow.com 10 min. version with handy visual aids.
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In a space-adjacent post, congratulations to all the Space Coast Marathon and Half-Marathon finishers! It was a beautiful day for a run!
Hi there! I'm Will Robinson-Smith, reporter and launch commentator for @spaceflightnow.com. As we cover government and commercial orbital space, I'd love to hear from you!
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