The Nationwide Area Society invitations you to the following Area Discussion board
Thursday, Could 22, 2024, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EST
Blue Ghost’s Moon Mission:
A New Period of Business Exploration
With particular visitor
Kevin Scholtes
Future Techniques Architect
Firefly Aerospace
On March 2, 2025, Firefly Aerospace made historical past as the primary business firm to attain a profitable tender touchdown on the Moon. Its Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down carrying 10 NASA science and expertise payloads, kicking off a 14-day mission that broke new floor—actually and figuratively.
From the first-ever reception and monitoring of GPS alerts on the lunar floor to progressive methods for mitigating harmful lunar mud, Blue Ghost delivered a string of firsts. The lander additionally carried out the deepest robotic drilling ever carried out on the Moon, opening new prospects for future scientific discovery. It was the longest business floor operation to this point opening new prospects for future scientific discovery and reshaping the trajectory of economic house exploration.
At this unique NSS Area Discussion board, we’ll go behind the scenes of this landmark mission with Kevin Scholtes, Future Techniques Architect at Firefly Aerospace. He’ll stroll us via the challenges, breakthroughs, and classes from the Blue Ghost mission—and the way Firefly’s work is paving the way in which for future missions to the Moon, Mars, and past.
Whether or not you’re an area fanatic, a pupil of exploration, or knowledgeable within the house sector, this is a chance to find out about this distinctive and impressive business house mission. Register for the house discussion board as we speak.
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Kevin Scholtes is the Future Techniques Architect for Firefly Aerospace the place he has straight supported the technique and improvement of the Alpha launch car, Elytra orbiter, and Blue Ghost lunar lander. An aerospace engineering graduate of the College of Texas at Austin, he spent a yr at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on co-op for methods engineering and mission formulation earlier than becoming a member of Firefly. With a earlier profession in nice arts, he’s a inventive chief that brings collectively a background in design, technique, and engineering to champion interdisciplinary groups that combine technical and non-technical goals.
Register as we speak to order your seat and ask your questions. Use the hyperlink beneath.
Register no later than Could 22 at 8 pm EST
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