Ende der heutigen totalen Sonnenfinsternis - vom Mond aus gesehen.
Zitat Firefly Aerospace@Firefly_Space #BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1 2:36 PM · Mar 14, 2025
Zitat John Kraus@johnkrausphotos·5h Beautiful. Do you have this whole image with the context of the lunar foreground?
Firefly Aerospace @Firefly_Space·5h We are still downlinking photos. We have one from the top deck we hope to share in a few hours
Zur Erläuterung: die Datenübertragungsrate von #BlueGhost ist während des Hochstands der Sonne in den letzten Tagen stark reduziert worden; jetzt, nachdem die Sonne nach Ende der Finsternis wieder sinkt, wird sie sukzessive wieder erhöht.
Nachtrag.
Zitat Firefly Aerospace@Firefly_Space·1h Blue Ghost turns red! Our lander downlinked more imagery from the Moon captured around 2:30 am CDT during the totality of the solar eclipse last night. These images - rapidly captured by our top deck camera with different exposure settings - were stitched together in a quick clip. The red hue is the result of sunlight refracting through the Earth's atmosphere as the sun is blocked by our planet, casting a shadow on the lunar surface. The glowing ring of the eclipse is again seen on Blue Ghost’s solar panel. #BGM1
You can also spot Mercury (left) and Venus (right) just above the eclipse! 7:45 PM · Mar 14, 2025
Der Mond sieht also während einer Finsternis nicht nur von der Erde tief kupferrot aus, sondern die Umgebung auf der Oberfläche ebenso. Das sagt einem zwar die Vernunft, aber das selber zu sehen hat etwas Frappantes.
Zitat Firefly Aerospace@Firefly_Space The sun is setting on #BlueGhost’s historic mission on the Moon. After two weeks of operations during the lunar day, the Firefly team is preparing for final operations during sunset and into the lunar night. Before we say goodnight, we hope to capture the sunset glow and dust levitation seen by the Apollo 17 astronauts as they were leaving the Moon. More to come soon! #BGM1 8:01 PM · Mar 16, 2025
Zitat Firefly Aerospace@Firefly_Space #BlueGhost signing off with one final message from the Moon. Thank you for the unforgettable journey. 💙 #BGM1 12:25 AM · Mar 17, 2025
Zitat AMSAT-DL@amsatdl 23:15:25 UTC: #BGM1 Blue Ghost @Firefly_Space S-Band beacon just switched Off. Is this the last signal? Good night, sleep well.. 😴🌘 12:35 AM · Mar 17, 2025
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc The RESILIENCE lander, TENACIOUS micro rover, and our customer payloads are now in lunar orbit as ispace engineers prepare for landing day on June 5, 2025 at 19:24 UTC // 15:24 EDT!
Today we’re excited to highlight what makes TENACIOUS special with the fourth episode of the micro rover documentary series, co-produced with the Luxembourg Space Agency.
TENACIOUS ROVER DOCUMENTARY EPISODE 4: 🌕 Luxembourg Space Agency Senior Manager, Lead Exploration & Space Resources, Bob Lamboray tells us what drives the LSA’s commitment to sustainable space resource utilization, and how TENACIOUS—designed, manufactured, and assembled by ispace EUROPE, with support from the Luxembourg Space Agency—supports the agency’s goals. 🌕 ispace EUROPE Senior Rover Systems Engineer John Walker describes what TENACIOUS is capable of as the first European lunar rover.
… and more!
Continue following us for the final wrap-up episode of the series and more mission updates coming soon!
@LuxSpaceAgency
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #VentureMoon #TENACIOUS 1:26 PM · May 16, 2025
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc Hello from lunar orbit! 👋🌙 RESILIENCE status: nominal Distance above the Lunar surface: between ca. 100 km to 2,300 km Current orbital phase: Lunar orbiting phase, osculating between ca. 3,200 km/h to 6,800 km/h
This photo was taken with the spot camera mounted on top of the lander, making the cover that protects the TENACIOUS micro rover visible in the bottom right of the image.
Landing is slated for June 5, 2025 at 19:24 UTC // 15:24 EDT, so stay tuned for updates!
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc RESILIENCE status: nominal Distance above the Lunar surface: between ca. 100 km and 2,300 km Current orbital phase: Lunar orbiting phase, osculating between ca. 3,200 km/h and 6,800 km/h
Following a successful orbital maneuver last week which brought the lander's apolune (furthest point in its orbit from the Moon) significantly closer to the lunar surface, RESILIENCE completes one orbit around the Moon in only about 4 hours! 🏎️💨
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #VentureMoon #RESILIENCE #M2Updates 10:58 AM · May 19, 2025
Every orbit. Every maneuver. RESILIENCE is in lunar orbit as landing day approaches.
With just 11 days remaining, the final phase of Mission 2 is underway. This moment is built on years of planning, Mission 1 experience, and a shared vision of a commercially active Moon.
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc 🌕 9 days to landing Confirmation of Success 8 is just around the corner!
Today, ispace engineers successfully conducted a lunar orbital control maneuver to move RESILIENCE into a circular orbit around the Moon. Mission controllers at our Mission Control Center are performing final confirmation to determine if additional orbital adjustments are required prior to initiating the landing sequence.
Stay tuned for more updates as RESILIENCE closes in on landing day!
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc Success 8: Achieved ✅🌔 RESILIENCE has now completed all orbital maneuvers while in lunar orbit and is now readying for its landing attempt on June 5, 2025 (UTC/EDT).
This marks a critical turning point for Mission 2 - the final technical milestone before descent.
ispace engineers have worked with relentless precision to bring the lander into its current orbit, with the Mare Frigoris landing site in our sights as the next destination. And now, there is just one step left: descent.
📡 Live stream begins on X (tent.): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT 🕖 Landing: June 6, 04:24 JST | June 5, 19:24 UTC | June 5, 15:24 EDT
Zitat TOKYO–May 31, 2025–ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, announced today that the RESILIENCE lunar lander has successfully completed all orbital maneuvers while in lunar orbit and is now being prepared for its landing attempt on June 6, 2025.
This marks the completion of Success 8 milestone of Mission 2 “SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon.”
RESILIENCE conducted a lunar orbital control maneuver at 5:27 p.m. JST (08:27 UTC) on May 28, 2025, to move into a circular orbit around the Moon in accordance with the mission operation plan. The operation required an engine burn of approximately 10 minutes, the longest to date on Mission 2. Since then, the lander has been in a 100 km orbit around the Moon and completes a full orbit every 2 hours. After RESILIENCE completed the orbital control maneuver, ispace engineers in the Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan worked to confirm the precise orbit in advance of the landing sequence.
The RESILIENCE lander, which reached lunar orbit on May 7, 2025 (JST), orbited the moon in an elliptical orbit with a perilune (closest point to the moon) altitude of approximately 70 km and an apolune (farthest point from the moon) altitude of approximately 5,800 km. After performing three orbital control maneuvers, it reached a circular orbit around the moon at an altitude of approximately 100 km.
A lunar landing is scheduled for no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC) (June 6, 2025, JST). The RESILIENCE lander is scheduled to begin descent from its current circular orbit. During the descent phase, the lander will automatically fire its main propulsion system to gradually decelerate and adjust its attitude, with the goal of achieving a soft landing on the lunar surface.
RESILIENCE is in a circular orbit around the Moon, completing an orbit once every 2 hours and holding steady at about 100km above the lunar surface.
Carrying our TENACIOUS micro rover and customer payloads along with it, our lander is poised to make its historic landing attempt in just a few short days.
📡 Live stream begins on X (tent.): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT 🕖 Landing: June 6, 04:24 JST | June 5, 19:24 UTC | June 5, 15:24 EDT
Zitat The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it prepares to land within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") in the northern hemisphere. The landing is scheduled for Thursday at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT; or 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6), ispace announced today (June 4). This is seven minutes earlier than previously stated, after engineers fine-tuned orbital calculations.
Resilience is currently in a circular orbit 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon. At around 2:20 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT) on Thursday, an hour before landing, it will automatically fire its main engine, reducing altitude and velocity as it begins its fully autonomous landing attempt.
Resilience, which is 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) tall and 8.5 feet (2.6 m) wide, is targeting Mare Frigoris, a vast, relatively smooth basaltic plain in the moon's northern hemisphere.
Resilience weighed roughly 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) when fully fueled and is based on the same Hakuto-R hardware as Mission 1, but features software updates using lessons learned from the earlier failed landing. An altitude sensor in Mission 1 mistook the rim of a crater for the lunar surface, causing the lander to shut down its engines early, while it was still, in reality, around 3.1 miles (5 km) above the moon.
Zitat Jun 05, 2025 20:23 ispace is now less than an hour away from the planned landing of the Resilience lander, more than 550 people gather at the official watch party in Japan, decked out in football-style scarves with the name of the lander.
Jun 05, 2025 20:30 Based on the timeline from Mission 1, here are the six phases that comprise the landing sequence: Phase 1 - De-Orbit Insertion (DOI) (~L-67 min >> L-66 min) at 100 km Phase 2 - Cruise Landing Phase (L-66 min >> L-13 min) 100 km >> 25 km Phase 3 - Braking Burn Phase (L-13 min >> L-2 min) 25 km >> 3 km Phase 4 - Braking Burn & Pitch-up Phase (L-2 min >> L-1 min) 3 km >> 1 km Phase 5 - Terminal Descent Phase (L-1 min >> L-20 sec) 1 km >> 20 m Phase 6 - Terminal Landing (L-20 sec >> L-0 sec) 20 m >> 0 m
Bodenkontrolle und Japan und Luxemburg? Erinnert sich noch jemand an das Großherzogtum Grand Fenwick (auf das ich an dieser Stelle schon verwiesen habe) und "The Mouse on the Moon"?
Und weil es so schön war: derweil in Berlin:
Zitat Auftritt in Berlin - Kretschmann fordert Milliarden für die Raumfahrt
Elon Musk dürfe nicht über die europäische Verteidigungsfähigkeit entscheiden, warnt Kretschmann zusammen mit zwei weiteren Länder-Ministerpräsidenten
Auch angesichts der gewachsenen internationalen Unsicherheiten muss Deutschland nach Ansicht von Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann deutlich mehr Geld in die Raumfahrt stecken - national und auf europäischer Ebene: Bei einem gemeinsamen Auftritt in Berlin forderten er und die Länder-Regierungschefs von Bayern und Bremen eine Aufstockung des nationalen Raumfahrtprogramms auf eine Milliarde Euro pro Jahr. Zudem müsse Deutschland die europäische Raumfahrtagentur Esa mit mehr Geld, nämlich zwei Milliarden Euro jährlich, unterstützen - auch aus Gründen der gemeinsamen europäischen Sicherheit.
Es könne nicht sein, dass Elon Musk - dem US-Tech-Milliardär gehört das private US-Raumfahrtunternehmen SpaceX - über die europäische Verteidigungsfähigkeit entscheide, warnte Kretschmann.
Herr K. muß jetzt ganz stark sein. Der HAKUTO-R-Mondlander ist im Januar von einer Falcon 9 gestartet worden. Unser letztes (und erstes) Unterfangen dieser Art ist am 30. März auf den Shetland-Inseln nach 30 SSekunden mit einer Explosion geendet.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat Jun 05, 2025 21:06 About 12 minutes left before the planned landing.
21:09 MESZ. 9 Minuten.
Zitat Jun 05, 2025 21:10 About 7 minutes remaining on the timeline to landing. Phase 4, the Braking Burn & Pitch up phase is coming up next at L-2
21:12. Per the updated landing sequence timeline from Mission 2, Phase 4 will take the lander from a speed of about 380 km/h down to 120 km/h.
It will go from an altitude of about 3 km down to 1 km above the Moon's surface. L-5 minutes.
10 km Höhe. Livestream spielt Telemetriedaten ein.
Zitat 21:15. Phase 5, the Terminal Descent Phase, is scheduled to begin at L-1 minute. The lander will slow from 120 km/h to about 2 km/h and reduce the altitude from 1 km to 10 m.
21:17. Telemetry data dropped off ahead of the minute mark. The lander should now be on the Moon. Teams are working to confirm its status.
21:19. Teams in the Mission Control Center are working to establish communications with the lander and assess its health. Now a couple minutes post the target landing time.
21:28. The commentator came back on briefly to state that teams are still working to confirm data from the lander, but didn't offer any new information. It's likely that it had a hard landing on the surface, as happened during Mission 1.
21:32. Just before the telemetry data dropped out, the display showed 187 km/h at L-00:01:45. That was during Phase 4, when the lander is supposed to decelerate from 380 km/h down to 120 km/h and from 3 km down to 1 km. Notably, the altitude was reading 52 m at that point.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat ispace@ispace_inc·9m At this moment, we have not yet been able to establish communication with RESILIENCE, but ispace engineers in our Mission Control Center are continuing to work to contact the lander. We will share an update with the latest information in a media announcement in the next few hours. Thank you for your patience--please check back with us soon. 11:03 PM · Jun 5, 2025
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat In a horrible case of deja vu, Japan-based company ispace got to the finish line with its robotic lunar lander, but was unsuccessful in safely touching down on the Moon’s surface.
Mission teams in Japan made the call at about 8 a.m. JST (7 p.m. EDT, 2300 UTC) that due to the lack off communication from the lander, named Resilience, likely suffered what’s referred to as a “hard landing.”
“Given that there is currently no prospect of a successful lunar landing, our top priority is to swiftly analyze the telemetry data we have obtained thus far and work diligently to identify the cause,” said Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO of ispace, in a statement Thursday evening. “We will strive to restore trust by providing a report of the findings to our shareholders, payload customers, HAKUTO-R partners, government officials, and all supporters of ispace.”
Zitat Ryo Ujiie, ispace's chief technology officer, said the final data received from the Resilience lander—assuming it was correct—showed it at an altitude of approximately 630 feet (192 meters) and descending too fast for a safe landing. "The deceleration was not enough. That was a fact," Ujiie told reporters in a press conference. "We failed to land, and we have to analyze the reasons."
The company said in a press release that a laser rangefinder used to measure the lander's altitude "experienced delays in obtaining valid measurement values." The downward-facing laser fires light pulses toward the Moon during descent, and clocks the time it takes to receive a reflection. This time delay at light speed tells the lander's guidance system how far it is above the lunar surface. But something went wrong in the altitude measurement system on Thursday.
"As a result, the lander was unable to decelerate sufficiently to reach the required speed for the planned lunar landing," ispace said. "Based on these circumstances, it is currently assumed that the lander likely performed a hard landing on the lunar surface."
Controllers sent a command to reboot the lander in hopes of reestablishing communication, but the Resilience spacecraft remained silent. ... Thursday's landing attempt was the seventh time a privately developed Moon lander tried to conduct a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface.
Two Texas-based companies have had the most success. One of them, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the Moon in February 2024, marking the first time a commercial lander reached the lunar surface intact. But the lander tipped over after touchdown, cutting its mission short after achieving some limited objectives. A second Intuitive Machines lander reached the Moon in one piece in March of this year, but it also fell over and didn't last as long as the company's first mission.
Firefly's Blue Ghost operated for two weeks after reaching the lunar surface, accomplishing all of its objectives and becoming the first fully successful privately owned spacecraft to land and operate on the Moon.
Intuitive Machines, Firefly, and a third company—Astrobotic Technology—have launched their lunar missions under contract with a NASA program aimed at fostering a commercial marketplace for transportation to the Moon. Astrobotic's first lander failed soon after its departure from Earth. The first two missions launched by ispace were almost fully private ventures, with limited participation from the Japanese space agency, Luxembourg, and NASA.
Commercial travel to the Moon only began in 2019, so there's not much of a track record to judge the industry's prospects. When NASA started signing contracts for commercial lunar missions, the then-chief of the agency's science vision, Thomas Zurbuchen, estimated the initial landing attempts would have a 50-50 chance of success. On the whole, NASA's experience with Intuitive Machines, Firefly, and Astrobotic isn't too far off from Zurbuchen's estimate, with one full success and a couple of partial successes.
The commercial track record worsens if you include private missions from ispace and Israel's Beresheet lander.
But ispace and Hakamada haven't given up on the dream. The company's third mission will launch under the umbrella of the same NASA program that contracted with Intuitive Machines, Firefly, and Astrobotic. Hakamada cited the achievements of Firefly and Intuitive Machines as evidence that the commercial model for lunar missions is a valid one.
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