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From Flight Test to the Moon: A Tale of Three Payloads
The manifest of payloads aboard the Firefly Blue Ghost lunar lander includes three innovations that were advanced by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program. Flight testing aboard sounding rockets, high-altitude balloons, and rocket-powered landers helped research teams mature the technologies’ readiness and minimize the risk for future endeavors, such as this CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) mission.
Read about the Blue Ghost payloads tested through Flight Opportunities about From Flight Test to the Moon: A Tale of Three Payloads
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NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the…
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NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8…
NASA’s TechFlights 2023 Selections Advance Space Science in Collaboration with Industry A new robot will be taking flight soon to…
Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool. NASA has decades of…
NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in…
Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust, and its…
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Later this month, NASA’s commercial lunar delivery services provider Intuitive Machines will launch its Nova-C lunar lander carrying several NASA…
