Company

Texas Tech University

USA · named on public Moon flights

Texas Tech University (Seiichi Nagihara, Department of Geosciences) is the science principal investigator for LISTER, the heat-flow probe that flew on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1. Honeybee Robotics built the pneumatic drill and mechanism in a 15-plus-year collaboration.

Hardware

LISTER

Hardware · Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1

Jobs

LISTER heat-flow probe (Texas Tech PI / Honeybee mechanism)

Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

Cargo

Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity

Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · 2025-01-15

Flights

Blue Ghost Mission 12025-01-15 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO19D ~$93.3M): Falcon 9 launch 2025-01-15 · soft landing (upright) Mare Crisium 2025-03-02 · all 10 NASA science/tech payloads operated through a full lunar day (+ hours into night).

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