Aegis Aerospace Co., Ltd. delivered the payload of the moon — RAC-1 — Along with 15 customer material experiments, firefly aerospace for integration into blue ghost mission One lunar lander scheduled for launch in May 2024.
The Regolith Adherence Characterization – 1st Flight (RAC-1) Platforms are used to determine what lunar soil is called regolith, exposed to deep space and the lunar environment during each phase of a lunar mission, interacting with a variety of modern matter. The material samples will be exposed to space during their transportation to the moon and then to the natural and induced environment when the Blue Ghost lands on the moon and performs lunar surface operations. Each sample is taken from above and below through the days of the month (14 earth days) Environmental data is recorded for future analysis.
“Developing robust and reliable lunar surface systems requires understanding how modern materials interact with lunar regolithAegis Aerospace Chief Strategy Officer said: Mark Gittleman.RAC-1 carries candidate surface system material samples from NASA, academia, and industry. Given the challenges of lunar surface design and how little is known about how modern materials and technologies interact with regolith, this is an important consideration for the RAC and the many lunar space-as-a-service we offer. We believe it will be the first of our test (STaaS) missions. Other lunar test platforms SSTEF (Space System Test & Evaluation Facility). We invented his STaaS at his MISSE facility on the International Space Station. Now, he looks forward to continuing his successful collaboration with NASA and his STaaS customer on the Moon.”