Nasa Space Technology has Big Travel Plans for 2025, Starting with a Trip to the Near Side of the Moon!
Among Ten GroundBreaking Nasa Science and Technology Demonstrations, Two Technologies are on a Ride to Survey Lunar Regolith – Also Known as “Moon Dust” Spacecraft and payloads Conducting Experiences on the Surface. These dust demonstrations and the data they’re designed to collect will help support future lunar missions.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched at 1:11 AM Est Aboard A Spacex Falcon 9 Rockt from Launch Complex 39A at the Agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company is targeting a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2.
Nasa’s Electrodynamic dust shield (EDS) will lift, transport, and remove particles using electric fields to reepel and prevent hazardous lunar dust accumulation on surfaces. The Agency’s Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS) Technology will use stereo imaging to capture the impact of rocket pluges Ion – an important task as bigger, heavier payloads are delivered to the moon in close proximity to each other.
The eds and scalpses technologies will be delivered to the moon on firefly’s first blue ghost mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, As Part of Nasa’s’s Clps (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) Initiatives. Its landing target is a 300-wide basin located on the moon’s near side, called mare crisium , A Large, Dark, Basaltic Plain that filled an ancient asteroid impact. FIRST-OF-Their-Kind Experiences will deploy after landing to gather important data in a broad spectrum of area including geophysical characteristics, Global Navigation, Radiation Tolen Unar regolith.
Michael Johansen
Flight demonstrations lead for nasa’s game changing development program
The moon’s dusty environment was one of the greenst challenges What was learned from those early missions – and from thousands of experiments conducted on Earth and in space since – is that successful surface missions require the ability to eliminate dust from all kinds of systems. Lunar Landings, For Example, Cause Lunar dust to dispense in all directions and collect on everything on everything that lands there with it. This is one of the reasons such such as are important to understand. The scalps technology will study the dispersion of lunar dust, while eds will demonstrate a solution to mitigate it.
Kristen john
Technical Integration Lead for Nasa’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII)
Dust Mitigation Technology has come a long way, but we still have a lot to learn to develop surface systems and infrastructure for more complex missions. LSII is actively engaged in this effort, work with the lunar communication across sector to expand knowledge and design new approaches for future technologies. Working along the lunar surface innovation consortium, lsii has a unique options to take a holistic look at dust’s role in the development of surface infrastructure Itu Resource Utilization, Surface Power, and Surviving the Lunar Night.
Capability for minimizing dust interaction are as important for future missions on mars as it is for missions on the moon. Like the mons, mars is also covered with regolith, also called martian dust or martian soil, but the properties are different than lunar regolith, both in shape and mineralogy. The Challenges Mars Rovers have encounters with martian regolith have provided Great Insight Into The Challenges we will face during lunar surface missions. Learning is interwoven and benefit to future missions with thousands of thirds of milles from Earth, on the Moon, Or Millions, on Mars.
