The cargo lander variant is designed Blue Moon is a flexible lander delivering a wide variety of small, medium, and large payloads to the lunar surface. Please refresh the page and try again.Space is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. "I love this. The lander is designed and operated by Blue Origin, a rocket and space exploration company created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem. NY 10036. By the time it reaches the lunar surface, having burned up almost all of its fuel, the lander will weigh only about 3.3 tons (3 metric tons). Whereas the Apollo landers were designed specifically for human missions to the lunar surface — and, therefore, required human hands to deploy science payloads — Blue Moon is a fully autonomous, robotic spacecraft with built-in mechanisms for dropping off science gear, including lunar rovers. Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper, is working to offer a Human Landing Based upon configuration and mission, we can We'll explain what Blue Moon is a relatively large lunar lander that's designed to deliver science payloads, moon rovers and even astronauts to the lunar surface. That's because the Apollo landers' engineers were worried that the lunar soil would be so soft that the lander would sink too far, but the ground was more solid than they thought, Bezos said. The service facilitates greater
Blue Moon is a flexible lander delivering a wide variety of small, medium, and large payloads to the lunar surface. Blue Moon's "stretched tank" variant is topped a pressurized ascent module for astronauts.
A "stretched tank" variant of Blue Moon will be able to carry up to 7.2 tons (6.5 metric tons), including an added ascent stage — and some additional fuel — that would allow astronauts to visit the surface of the moon. System for NASAâs Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface â this to provide reliable, repeatable, and cost-effective delivery of a wide variety
Other bells and whistles include a star tracker system and a flash lidar device that will allow the spacecraft to navigate autonomously by looking at stars in space and features on the lunar surface.
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Although the Blue Moon lunar lander is designed to make one-way trips to the moon, the stretched variant with its ascent stage would enable round trips for astronauts. "People are very excited about this capability to soft-land their cargo, their rovers, their science experiments onto the surface of the moon in a precise way. It can also deploy small satellites into lunar orbit as a "bonus mission" on the way, Bezos said. Those new engines will be powered by a combination of liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), which is "not how Apollo did it," Bezos said. There is no capability to do that today. "Blue Origin has not yet officially offered NASA its lunar lander concept as a contender for the agency's 2024 mission, but NASA plans to start soliciting But Blue Origin doesn't need a NASA contract to launch Blue Moon.
Although Apollo's command modules — which stayed in orbit while the lunar modules went to the surface — did use LH2/LOX for fuel, the landers used hypergolic propellant and ran on battery power. Blue Moon may look smaller than Lockheed's lander, but it will have a bigger payload capacity.
A suite of lunar landing systems for cargo and crew delivery to go back to the Moon â this time to stay. "One of the most important things we know about the moon today is that So, the LH2/LOX-powered engines not only provide better performance but also run on natural resources found on the moon — that is, if scientists find a way to Blue Moon has a 23-foot (7 meters) payload bay that will stand about 14 feet (4 m) with its four landing legs fully deployed. Blue Moon is a relatively large lunar lander that's designed to deliver science payloads, moon rovers and even astronauts to the lunar surface.
Blue Origin’s design is most like the lander used during the Apollo mission, with a large descent stage that slows the spacecraft as it comes down from orbit to the surface. It also has much smaller landing pads, or "feet," on the bottom of its landing legs. "There's no GPS on the moon," Bezos said.
rovers, habitats, and ascent stages. The davit system can be customized for different types of payloads, and it can drop up to four large rovers onto the moon simultaneously.
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For comparison, the Apollo lunar modules that carried astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s were 23 feet tall and weighed 4.7 tons (4.3 metric tons) without propellant. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offerJeff Bezos reveals the Blue Moon lunar lander for the first time on May 9, 2019. WASHINGTON — Yesterday, Blue Origin's billionaire founder, During an exclusive presentation here at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center yesterday (May 9), Bezos laid out the details of From new tech to possible crewed missions to the lunar surface, there's a lot to unpack from Bezos' presentation.