NASA has sent a suite of advanced science experiments and technology demonstrations to the Moon aboard a commercial spacecraft, marking a new era of lunar exploration.
Liftoff! Nasa has sent a suite of cutting-edge science experiments and tech demos to the Moon on a commercial spacecraft. This historic mission marks a new era of lunar exploration, paving the way for future human missions and scientific discoveries.
Carrying science and tech on Firefly Aerospace’s first Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight for Nasa, Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched this morning aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The company is targeting a lunar landing on March 2.https://youtu.be/aMdYV3_rlP8
Once on the Moon, Nasa will test and demonstrate lunar drilling technology, regolith sample collection capabilities, global navigation satellite system abilities, radiation tolerant computing and lunar dust mitigation methods. Lunar PlanetVac: Designed to collect regolith samples from the lunar surface using a burst of compressed gas to drive the regolith into a sample chamber for collection and analysis by various instruments. Additional instrumentation will then transmit the results back to Earth.
Electrodynamic Dust Shield : An active dust mitigation technology that uses electric fields to move and prevent hazardous lunar dust accumulation on surfaces. The EDS technology is designed to lift, transport and remove particles from surfaces with no moving parts. Multiple tests will demonstrate the feasibility of the self-cleaning glasses and thermal radiator surfaces on the Moon. In the event the surfaces do not receive dust during landing, EDS can re-dust itself using the same technology.
Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies: Will use stereo imaging photogrammetry to capture the impact of rocket plume on lunar regolith as the lander descends on the Moon’s surface. The high-resolution stereo images will aid in creating models to predict lunar regolith erosion, which is an important task as bigger, heavier payloads are delivered to the Moon near each other.
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