Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
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Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
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Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#2Related: 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?
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#3An 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.
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#4Related: 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?
Same budget line item?
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#5Related: 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?
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!)
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#6Link to the livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY
I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#7Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
Great question, and I suggest you take a look at SatNOGS! It's a community driven satellite ground station project, where you can offer your own antenna and make use of the antennas of others. At my work we host 4 groundstations and regularly make use of those offered. A large open-source project like this can always use more contributors.
https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs
There's over 600 open issues with everything from hardware to website UX, so depending on your field there may be a lot you can contribute.
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#8Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
> as a "civilian" software developer.
Well, there's plenty of civilian space companies these days! It's largely embedded-oriented (code that controls launch vehicles and satellites) from what I've seen, but the opportunities are there.
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#9An 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.
The pedant in me is curious if we would have to call it something different than geolocation. :)
Re: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
#10Related: 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?
Me in Space Shuttle Simulator during liftoff: "I wonder what this red switch does?"
Space Shuttle: bang