Trans-Lunar Orbit Burn For Blue Ghost -- A Complete Success: Now Being Captured By Lunar Gravity... Into A Tightening-Elliptical Orbit, There.

This will be a private soft lunar landing, in early March, if all goes 5 by 5. [That's an "Earthrise" of sorts, at right -- off her back deck. . . headed toward the Moon!]

All is right on track at the moment, after Saturday's "white knuckle" engine burn. [Backgrounder here.] Now it mostly coasts, in a series of tightening loops, around the moon -- for the next 16 or so days. Here's the latest:

. . .Firefly completed its Trans Lunar Injection burn on Saturday, February 8. . . . [The] spacecraft carrying NASA science and tech to the Moon has now departed Earth’s orbit -- and begun its four-day transit to the Moon’s orbit. Blue Ghost will then spend approximately 16 days in lunar orbit before beginning its descent operations.

Since launching more than three weeks ago, Blue Ghost has performed dozens of health tests generating 13 gigabytes of data. All 10 NASA payloads onboard are currently healthy and ready for surface operations on the Moon. . . .

We needed some lightening here. Onward!

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