2025.02.26 | Ghost Riders in the Sky

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 February 2025:

Athena:

The Intuitive Machine's second lunar mission, Athena with a NASA PRIME-1 (a payload consisting of a drill and mass spectrometer), the Micro Nova Hopper "Gracie", Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) and Dymon's Yaoki rover. (Insert courtesy NASA HQ)

PUNCH:

A briefing on the four Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites. (Insert courtesy NASA HQ)

Lunar Trailblazer:

Bethany Ehlmann of Caltech describes the goals and objectives of the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft which aims to distinguish water types on the Moon.

Blue Ghost Mission 1:

As Firefly's Blue Ghost nears it lunar landing, a progress report on the mission. (Inserts courtesy Firefly and NASA)