[HN Gopher] Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
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       Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
        
       Author : rolph
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-03-01 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (plus.nasa.gov)
        
       | _mitterpach wrote:
       | Related: https://nyxspace.com/blog/2025/02/21/nyx-space-and-rust-
       | powe...
       | 
       | Hope this one goes differently to my landings in Kerbal Space
       | Program.
       | 
       | From the wiki I read that this is a part of the Artemis program,
       | but the connection seems unclear to me. Could anybody explain,
       | will this be used to deliver just cargo or will it have people
       | aboard sometime in the future?
        
         | dagelf wrote:
         | Same budget line item?
        
         | spookie wrote:
         | Iirc it had to do with the deployment of some navegation relay,
         | may be wrong, but the new intuitive machines lander will also
         | deploy one.
         | 
         | (Edit: riffraff on th thread has the correct lede!)
        
       | riffraff wrote:
       | An interesting part of the payload is LuGRE, an experiment
       | designed to test reception of GNSS (GPS, Galileo) signals on the
       | moon, which would be double the maximum distance tested until
       | now.
       | 
       | I never imagined that geolocation systems could work outside of
       | the earth.
        
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