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In late February, the moon’s land will leave from the Kennedy Space Center in NASA on its way to the moon that carries tools that can investigate what is below the surface. Busty after two months of the year, this will be the third task that started on a journey towards the moon until now in 2025. If it was 2024, then the year 2025 is a double year. Well, unless Trump And convert the focus to Mars under the direction of Elon Musk, while eliminating the entire timetable. But as is the case, it should be a year crowded for the moon.
Last year, the launch of the Peregrine Lander began from Astrobotics, which first represents many of the tasks led by companies that operate with millions of dollars in contracts as part of the NASA commercial services program (CLPS). Ultimately, after suffering a motivated leak after its launch, but only a few weeks later, the intuitive machines were launched and on the moon-the first of the private spacecraft. (Odysseus, but its loads were still able to collect and transfer some data).
Now, quickly this year, NASA has half a scale of CLPS tasks in its schedule. First, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 was launched on January 15 on the Spacex Falcon 9. This missile itself also carries a lunar ground made by the Japanese company ISPACE, which makes the endeavor, Hakuto-R.
Blue Ghost is expected to reach the moon first, with the target date on March 2 in an area called Mare Crisium. The 6.6 -feet Solar spacecraft carries 10 scientific loads for NASA and other partners. This includes a new dust shield system to show how future tasks can prevent particles from accumulating on spacecraft, sampling tools and global satellite system (GNSS) and a radiation -based computer. “The objectives of the task are to investigate the heat flow from lunar internal reactions, surface reactions (and) electric and magnetic fields,” according to NASA. “It will also take pictures of the X -ray of the Earth’s magnetic calligrapher.”
Flexibility, ISPace Lander, takes different low energy And you will not reach its site, Mare Frigoris, until late May or June. This craft contains a small rhover called Tenacious on the plane designed to explore surface materials and deportation data. In addition to the camera and the shovel, Tenitain has a small trained home – specifically “”“Swedish artist Michael Genberg. Gundam).
The intuitive companies are to launch the company that left the first commercial moon ever with the craft of Odysseus last year, with the second CLPS mission next month or so, at the end of February. Lander IM-2 NOVA-C, which is called ATHENA to the lunar southern pole with long-meter and tiny training exercises to experience the ice mining of polar resources in NASA (PRIME-1). Its goal is to show the feasibility of digging samples and analyze these samples on the site for things like water. It will serve as a response to the lunar boil in NASA, which is a small orbit “studies shape, abundance and distribution of lunar water and its relationship to geology.”
Besides the PRIME-1 tools, ATHENA will transport a Retroreflector laser, which is a smaller oligarchy of the intuitive machines-described as “a driven drone deployed from the Nova-C Gallery and the Moon’s surface jumping”-lunar salt “network system in a box” Made Nokia. The two companies plan to prepare the first cellular network of the moon, which “is designed to deal with the surface connection between Lander and vehicles, and it bears high -resolution video broadcast, driving and control connections and remote measurement data.”
There is an opportunity for the blue origin opportunity from the moon in the moon 1 moon that will take its first journey to the moon as soon as this spring or summer. John Colorris, a senior vice president originally, said in an interview with Last March, “We expect to land on the moon between 12 and 16 months of the day.” At that time, the company has not yet launched the New Glenn Rocket – which will be a way for this task – even once, so that this claim was not a great weight. But a lot after, many delay, in mid -January.
NASA revealed, in the FCC file monitored by Once again, in August, she chose Lander Blue Origin to bring the camera system, and Estrio cameras for surface studies of the lunar diploma (heads of the head), to the southern pole of the moon this year as part of the CLPS program. In the deposit, NASA notes that this must be done before the end of 2025, because the data collected by the tool in Landing will help inform the first artemis moon plans. The hippocampus has been transferred to other CLPS missions, but the level of the trend from Mark 1 Lander’s Blue Origin is closer to the size of the human landing system It will be used for astronauts.
Blue origin said in another In the same month in which the moon’s cross mission, Pathfinder, can belong early in March 2025, SpaceNews I mentioned. Do not be surprised if this really happens at a later time.
The next CLPS mission is not expected to be launched after that until the fall, when Astrobooth gets another snapshot on the moon’s surface. This time, Griffin Lander will send the largest to an area near the Antarctic. Griffin Mission 1 was initially supposed to carry NASA, which is achieved in the polar exploration (VIPER), but from this project late last year due to delay and high costs. Lander’s Astrobotic will not appear to the empty -handed moon. It will have a small solar -powered Cuberover in the clouds, as well as the laser Retoreflector to locate Lander.
We may see the mission of third intuitive machines before the end of this year. The company and NASA are looking for late 2025 or early 2026 to launch the IM-3, which will provide a set of tools that focus on studying magnetic and plasma properties in Rainer Gamma’s spiral, which is a “mini magnetic” area that will become a Rover called the independent phone excavation platform MAPP on board, as well as a group of small Rover operations of the Cooperative Independent Cooperative Exploration Project (CADRE) that will mostly explain independent robots together. Besides and screen of the lunar space environment, from the South Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in South Korea (KASI).
Although this year is certainly brought a lot of activity on and around the moon, there is one thing that we will not see there yet – humans. NASA has amended the schedule of Artemis tasks several times since the announcement of the program, and In December, it pays the first natural flight, ARTEMIS II, to April 2026. The agency said previously that it was shot in September 2025. 2017.
