It's Mind blowing! What SpaceX just did with to the Moon Shocked NASA, New Update

when we think of Falcon 9 we often picture it as the Workhorse rocket of SpaceX frequently tasked with launching satellites crew and cargo into lower thit however its capabilities extend far beyond that recently Falcon 9 undertook a significant Mission delivering payloads to the moon for NASA how did Falcon 9 get this done and how his SpaceX Advanced with these lunar payloads and what does this mean for NASA we're going to get into all that and more in today's episode of alphat tech thanks for watching and be sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on any of our upcoming episodes next goal is to get to 150,000 Subs of course we're striving to get better in every way but we still need your support and again thanks so much for watching on any given day SpaceX might launch a Falcon 9 rocket roll one out to the pad or recover one back at Port as of the middle of this month Falcon 9 has already broken its own record with a single Falcon 9 booster achieving five flights in only 9 months remarkably booster 1067 has now gotten reused 25 times and SpaceX isn't stopping there they aim to launch each Falcon 9 booster up to 40 times additionally with its growing expertise and booster reuse SpaceX has significantly reduced turnaround times between flights just in November the company launched the same Falcon 9 twice in under 14 days a record for the shortest turnaround yet space XX has done almost 40 missions with booster turnaround times of one month or less with all but nine of those recurring in just last year but there's more to the story SpaceX is also recovering and reusing payload fairings the protective shells that encase satellite payloads during their Ascent through the atmosphere last month the company confirmed that payload fairing had gotten launched for the 22nd time setting yes another new record meanwhile the factory for SpaceX in Hawthorne California continues to make upper stages for every Falcon 9 Falcon heavy mission in the past year alone 135 new upper stages each costing millions of dollars have been built averaging One mission and a new upper stage every 2.7 days however these aren't the only highlights as we currently look at the present moment just recently spacex's Falcon 9 did two lunar payload launches Paving the way for Humanity's long-term goal of getting back to the moon and establishing a new foothold for Life there the mission included the launch of two payload lunar Landers developed by the us-based Firefly Aerospace and Japan's ipace this marks the first time Falcon 99's undertaken such a combined Mission while both Firefly and ipace had previously announced agreements to launch their lunar Landers aboard Falcon 9 industry assumptions were that these would happen on separate Rockets this expectation stemmed from I space's earlier launch of its Lander aboard a dedicated Falcon 9 however it wasn't until last month that ipace revealed its resilience Lander which Shar the mission with fireflies Blu ghost one this dual payload heightened the stakes for SpaceX not just ensuring customer satisfaction but also demonstrating reliability to NASA especially since Falcon 9 experienced a second stage failure last year starting out the new year with a record for booster reuse SpaceX selected booster 1085 for this moon mission marking its fifth flight following previous missions including crew 9 GPS 3 sv7 starlink 105 and starlink 677 approximately 8 and 1 12 minutes after liftoff b185 landed on the Drone ship just read the instructions achieving jti's 107th successful landing and marking Falcon 99's 398th overall booster recovery for the upper stage carrying the payload Firefly as a space separated about 65 minutes after launch following two burns the upper stage performed a third short burn before deploying I space's resilience Lander in space approximately 93 minutes after liftoff both Landers were inserted into Earth Transit orbits and following distinct trajectories toward the moon updates on their Journeys will be given and if successful this Mission will represent a huge milestone in the future of lunar exploration therefore this Mission holds great significance not just for spacex's Falcon 9 but also the companies behind the lunar Landers marking a critical step forward in advancing deep lunar exploration the launch Mark the first moonbound mission for Firefly Aerospace its Blue Ghost lunar lander was conceived following the company's selection as part of NASA's commercial lunar payload Services Program the objective of the clps is to get NASA to the surface of the Moon without the agency having to build Landers or procure launches NASA has multiple contracts with a variety of clps providers with astrobotics paragr mission one and intuitive machines im1 flights happening early this year Blue Ghost has a dry mass of 469 kilos and weighs roughly 1,00 kg when fueled it uses a combination of mmh hypergolic propell and Ando and three oxidizer to power the main engine and thrusters throughout the journey it's designed to carry 10 NASA science payloads to the surface of the Moon which so far is the most manifested on a single Lander as part of clps Joel Karns Deputy admin for NASA's science Mission directorate said that once 10 instruments were small enough that they could fly on just one Lander the agency looked for a company that could execute all the science Ops over just two weeks one lunar daylight period Firefly and other biders took up that challenge they came up with a really credible Mission plan to do all the experience we want on our instruments Kar said in a pre-launch interview Bridget Oaks the VP of engineering over at Firefly said that the Company Incorporated learning from previous Moon missions we really took a lot of lessons learned from earlier missions I mean we did a full thorough review of every moon mission that went up whether it was commercial or Nas it took a lot of lessons learned from that and then essentially just kind of fine-tuned and adapted for Firefly model with the additional product lines and then took the best of what previous companies had done before us Firefly also took learnings and Hardware from its Alpha rocket and folded those into Blu ghost to there is a lot of great wisdom experience and Lessons Learned at this company we got rockets and satellites at our company so there's a commonality between the two parts of our company and lots of lessons learned to get shared said Firefly CEO Jason Kim as we go to Cadence on our Alpha rocket a lot of those Lessons Learned even the reaction control repulsion that stuff that's Lessons Learned for our Blue Ghost Lander because we have ACS and RCS thrusters on our Blue Ghost Lander that have Heritage from the alpha rocket so there's a lot of cross talk within our company so that really helps programs like blue Ghost have confidence as Firefly goes for its first landing attempt set to take place March 2nd Kim said one of the key tools on this Landers is a quartet of cup-shaped ends on the landing legs those landing pads are designed carefully with crumple zones if you think of a honeycomb and how crunchy it is it's got that built into the structure so when it lands it's going to kind of like your car when you get into an accident it crumples deliberately that's what that design entails the mission called Ghost Riders in the Sky will take slightly longer to reach the surface of the Moon compared to the last clps mission from Houston based intuitive machines the im1 flight took about 7 days from lift off to Landing While Blue Ghost Lander took roughly 45 days once on the surface it'll operate for about 2 weeks with instruments including a sample collection tool called the lunar planet back or lpv from honeybee robotics a navigational demo called the lunar gnss receiver experiment Luger from the Italian space agency and NASA's Gard space flight center and the regolith adherence characterization RAC from aisera space which will study how the regulus sticks to a variety of materials the lender is also designed to survive a few hours at night to capture the sunset and other areas in lunar Darkness Beneath The Blue Ghost lunar lander inside is specially designed payload canister was I space's Lander called resilience this was the second time the japan-based part of the company launched a Lander to the Moon its first launch attempt hakuto R mission 1 M1 launched as a dedicated flight on Falcon 9 back in December of 2022 and made a failed Landing attempt in April 23 in a pre-launch interview former NASA astronaut and current CEO of ipace us Ron Garen said it was a software glitch that prevented the first landing he said the radar altimeter saw a big jump altitude as they approached the crater they were aiming for which caused the Lander to misinterpret where it was in the mission profile it then made what it thought was a soft Landing but was actually about 5,000 m above the bottom of the crater and hovered there until it ran out of fuel and crashed we've obviously fixed all that software we're not Landing in the bottom of a deep crater this time so our confidence level is a lot higher on this one Garen said for hakudo R mission 2 with a mission named never quit the lunar Quest the resilience laner will Target a touchdown in a region called m for gorus the Sea of cold which lies in the northern part of the Moon the mission will take considerably longer to reach the moon than fireflies bu ghost while fireflies Lander gets dropped off in a highly elliptical Earth orbit and take just 25 days for a phased orbital approach before performing a translunar injection burn resilience takes the slower path to the Moon using the upper stage of the Falcon 9 to put on on a path for low energy transfer to the Moon essentially it'll do a fly by the moon go about a million miles deep into space and then sink up with the moon again for its Landing what the low energy transfer allows is us to trade fuel for payload capacity margin Garen explained it just leads to more capacity for us to get to the moon's surface the Lander carries with it several instruments including a food production experiment and one design to demonstrate electrolysis the electrolysis is really exciting because of the implications if we're able to really do electrolysis on the moon then we're able to produce Rocket Fuel On The Moon Garen said the mission will take a small Rover called tenacity which will be deployed to operate on its own after landing it features an HD camera that'll be used to capture among other things imagery of an art installation called the moonhouse which is a replica of a Swedish home that would be placed on the surface Garen said the Rover comes from the European division of ipace the Rover itself is really critical to the future of our company that the Rover is efficient and that the data is going to come off the Rover is going to be really valuable to us as we continue to hone our design on the surface Mobility aspect of the business Garen said and so that's really exciting too both the Rover and Lander will operate on the surface of the Moon for about 2 weeks when the moon slips into its lunar nighttime Garen said they're looking at a variety of methods for how to potentially achieve this from orbiting solar Concepts to nuclear options and Beyond to start a CIS lunar economy you have to be able to survive the night there's millions and millions and millions of dollars that are being put into these missions and if they only operate for 2 weeks that's not a very good Roi Garen said so we want to be able to do surface Ops for months or years at a time and in order to do that you got to be able to survive the night and that's all for today's episode thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time