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Momentarily on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiitFa5-3U the "Hearing - Leveraging Commercial Innovation for Lunar Exploration: A Review of NASA’s #CLPS Initiative" - see https://science.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=AB3C0271-AA62-4F88-8652-CD8DA06E2B05 for the 'witnesses' coming on stage.
@djsnm.extwitter.link
#im #blueghost #nasa #clps
Why Did The Latest Lunar Lander Fall Over, Why Is Landing On The Moon Harder Than We Thought 
https://youtu.be/ISZTTEtHcTg?feature=shared
( Ed: moon landings are hard 
good luck Spacex HLS 
)
@michaelsheetz.bsky.social
The Sun, emerging from totality behind the Earth, seen from Blue Ghost's perch on the Moon:
Take a bow, #FireflyAerospace! 
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From the #LPSC 'NASA Night' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4sVQ81DiI a list of the next #CLPS missions: NASA will have more Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS) on #BlueOrigin's HLS test lander. They also reported superb results from #BlueGhost with 6 of the NASA experiments already completed and the remainder being done once the hot noon is over. Not much came out of #Athena, obviously, and they're still trying to make contact with the Lunar Trailblazer - no indication of the hope level ...
Photo Shows Stricken Moon Lander Lying on its Side https://petapixel.com/2025/03/10/photo-shows-stricken-athena-moon-lander-lying-on-its-side/ #lunarlander #moonlander #artemis #athena #Space #News #clps #moon
PetaPixel · Photo Shows Stricken Moon Lander Lying on its SideIt has been declared inoperational.
@angry_astro #nasa #clps #blueghost #im2 #athena
I can't remember how many times I've expressed concern about the tall, top heavy @Int_Machines design. But nothing illustrates how significant this factor is than a comparison between the @Firefly_Space & Athena landers.
@launchpad
"Update after private lunar lander touches down on the moon"
https://www.youtube.com/live/7wsvlD3SfjY?feature=shared
(Ed : Squat lander designs such as #blueghost, Apollo #LM and more relevant Surveyor.All had lower center of gravity henceforth less likely to tip over on suspicious terrain)
Another one bites the (Moon)dust!
This is Intuitive Machines' #IM2 lander that once again toppled over after trying to land on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole.
The picture had lots of detail hidden in the shadows which I brought out in processing.
one thing i'm kinda curious about is that we've had several commercial lunar landers tip over on touchdown, leading to an early death, and like, this feels like a solved problem with the way several Mars missions were landed with the flower petal deployment method. we just ignoring that?
@intuitivemachines.bsky.social #IM2 #NASA #CLPs
Tune into the landing broadcast for IM-2, our second mission to the surface of the Moon. 
https://www.youtube.com/live/WGf4aWipxC0?feature=shared
(Ed: Lunar landing playback appears to have landed on its side again)
@petapixel.bsky.social
#FireFlyAerospace #BlueGhost Spacecraft’s First Photo From the Moon After Historic Lunar Landing
MAR 02, 2025
Jeremy Gray
NASA’s CLPS program is reshaping lunar exploration. Instead of building everything in-house, NASA now contracts private companies—like Firefly, Intuitive Machines, and Astrobotic—to handle lunar deliveries.
#NASA #CommercialSpace #LunarExploration #20postchallenge #CLPS
Přistání sondy #Blueghost je prvním úspěšným přistáním komerční firmy na Měsíci a současně prvním úspěšným projektem #NASA v rámci #CLPS. #moon
Landed! Three contact sensors out of 4, data returned still! First 100% successful #NASA #CLPS landing!!!! #blueghost #Firefly
Three Lunar Landers? Why Everyone Is Going To The Moon."
The latest views from Firefly's #BlueGhost lander in lunar orbit are just amazing! This video starts at Hopman crater on the Southern hemisphere and ends at Gagarin crater near the Equator.
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The NASA #CLPS IM-2 Lunar Delivery Readiness media teleconference begins in 15 minutes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRrr5ARF1po - meanwhile webcasts of Athena's launch tonight have been announced e.g. for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8qzcomV5A (NASA), https://www.youtube.com/live/WV9EXw07tSs (AstroForge) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFXfIqPJc4 (Lunar Outpost).
#DLR:
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Berliner Instrument fliegt mit IM-2-Mission zum Mond
Neue Mondmission sucht Wassereis am Mond-Südpol
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".. private Startup-Mondmission IM-2 wird voraussichtlich in der Nacht vom 26. auf den 27.2. .., abheben.
Das Landemodul „Athena“ wird rund acht Tage später in der Nähe des Mond-Südpols landen."
https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/neue-mondmission-sucht-wassereis-am-mond-suedpol
26.2.2025
www.dlr.deNeue Mondmission sucht Wassereis am Mond-SüdpolKurz nach Mitternacht am 27. Februar 2025 Mitteleuropäischer Zeit, um 0.30 Uhr, öffnet sich das Startfenster für die Mission IM-2 mit der Landesonde Athena des US-amerikanischen New-Space-Unternehmen Intuitive Machines für seine zweite Mission zum Mond. Mit dabei ist das Lunar RADiometer (LRAD), ein wissenschaftliches Messinstrument zur berührungslosen Temperaturmessung. Es wurde am DLR und am Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin (FUB) entwickelt.