What does Firefly want to deliver to the moon?
A payload of suits?
Or a suite of payloads?
SpaceX has notched up another order for a mission to the Moon, this time from Firefly Aerospace for a 2023 launch for its lunar lander, Blue Ghost. Firefly Aerospace was awarded a cool $93.3m last February to deliver a suit of payloads to the Moon in 2023 under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The payloads, …
Except that it doesn't exist yet, so technically it can't lift anything right now.
Firefly has a plan for a rocket that can lift heavier loads and is working on it. Whether that rocket ever comes into existence is another question entirely.
Finally, I note with interest that Firefly's Alpha rocket is not in the list of orbital launchers maintained by Wikipedia. I wonder why ?
Because Wikipedia is not maintained, at least not in any sensible sense. There's a bunch of people hacking away at it, sometimes making a complete mess of a subject, even reverting your changes should you have more of a clue. At least it made it easy to spot which student simply regurgitated the Wikipedia page (and without citing it = insta fail)...
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Give a company a contract to do something that they have no ability or experience in doing (landing stuff on the moon), when they haven't even launched a research rocket to LEO ...
I'm not sure, as a company, how the hell you tender for a contract based on absolutely nothing ... or is that the point - think of a cost, multiply by the dogs age, add a 0 at the end and put that on the tender ... if it doesn't work you get paid until the money runs out ...
You need to keep various items significantly above absolute zero, and since the lunar night involves exposure to the vacuum of space (the moon has insufficient atmosphere to make a difference) for over 300 hours without any solar input... Typical night time temperatures will be in the double digit kelvin range, that's properly cold.
That's a significant amount of heating required.
Specifically I don't think batteries like being that cold - but I am sure three are other components which would object as well.