Firefly Aerospace Onboards Zeno Power on Blue Ghost Mission to Demonstrate Radioisotope Technologies to Survive the Lunar Night
Firefly Aerospace announced a commercial payload agreement with Zeno Power Systems to fly a Survive-the-Night Package on a future Blue Ghost mission to the Moon's near side. Scheduled for launch no earlier than 2028, the mission will demonstrate a 5-Watt thermal americium-241 Radioisotope Heater Unit (RHU) designed to keep spacecraft operational during the extreme cold of the 14-day lunar night.
Key figures
- Temp low f
- -275
- Launch year
- no earlier than 2028
- Temp high f
- 230
- Rhu power output
- 5 Watts thermal
- Temp low extreme f
- -280
- Lunar day duration earth days
- approximately 14
- Lunar night duration earth days
- 14
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