Blue Ghost Mission 1 to Deliver NASA Electric Moon Dust Shield Written 25 April 2024
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NASA artist’s rendering of three crewmembers working near their lunar lander on the lunar surface. | Credit: NASA; Wikipedia; Public Domain
SPACE reports, “NASA is sending a technology demonstrator to the moon on the upcoming private Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 in order to test how to repel and remove lunar dust using electricity … The EDS system will fly aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will put a lunar lander on the moon’s surface later in 2024. A total of ten agency payloads will launch to the moon on Blue Ghost Mission 1, including the EDS prototype.”
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