Starts Invasion on the Moon: Ilona Mask rocket will launch two landing modules at once (photo)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intricate news from the world of science! On January 15, the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket launch is planned. It will bring two landing modules of private companies to the Earth's orbit, which will then go to a month. Both modules are part of the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to deliver scientific tools to the moon's surface to study it. Falcon 9 will go to Blue Ghost Firefly Aerospace and the Resilienness of the Japanese company ISPACE in space.

The Blue Ghost module will rotate around the Earth for 25 days. Then it will fly to a month that will take 4 days. After that, the module will rotate around the month for 16 days and only then try to land in the sea of ​​crises on the moon. The Blue Ghost planting module will conduct scientific research on the surface of the moon for two weeks, and when a lunar night comes, it will finish its work and shut off.

The fact is that during the lunar night the module will not be able to receive enough sunlight to charge their batteries. The Resilien landing module will fly up to a month by another trajectory, so it will try to land in the sea of ​​cold only 4-5 months after launch. On board the module is a small menacious moon, which should collect samples of lunar soil. At the same time, the module will also conduct a study of the moon's surface.

For Ispace, this will be the second attempt to plant your module on the moon under the Hakuto-R program. In April 2023, the first month module of the company crashed during an attempt to land for a month. In February, the landing module of the American company Intuitive Machines will go to the Earth's satellite, which was the only one among all private NASA contractors to successfully plant its device on the moon.

In February 2024, the NOVA-C planting module within the IM-1 mission delivered several NASA scientific tools after landing near the Malapert Crater and 300 km from the South Pole of the Moon. The IM-2 mission landing module will also go to the Southern Polar region of the month and should land next to the Sheklton Craterr and should also deliver new scientific tools as part of the CLPS program. This module should confirm the presence of water ice in this region of the month.

IM-3 mission of IM-3 per month, when the NOVA-C landing module will deliver another set of NASA scientific tools at the end of 2025. This year, the American company Astrobotic plans to send its landing module Griffin as part of the CLPS. Last year, the monthly module of this company called Peregrine could not even fly to the moon, so it had to be turned back so that it burned in the Earth's atmosphere.

The NASA CLPS program is aimed not only at a more thorough study of the month, but also to prepare for the landing of astronauts in 2027. Focus has already written about other important space missions that are planned for 2025. All of them are of great importance for a better understanding of space. Focus also wrote that black holes are not absorbed by the entire matter and are thrown into space.