Artist’s impression on the moon Athena spacecraft
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The private space mission will launch Moon This week, getting the southern point ever visited on the lunar surface. Athena intuitive machines, made by US intuitive machines, in the Kennedy Space Cencen of NASA, Florida, Florida, 12:19, February 27th (19:17 States of the afternoon). Many other missions will also take a walk in the same rocket, including the asteroid mining expedition.
They became intuitive machines First private company Last year to land on the Moon, when the spacecraft was touched by the spacecraft of the moon. Despite the operation of the spaceship’s instruments, the Odysseus made a rough landing and was onion, limiting the amount of data and limited data to shorten and cut the mission.
The company expects the cleaner landing when Athena begins to end the end of March. The planned landing area is close to the highest mountain of the Moon, Mons Mouton, the South Pole 60 kilometers, Atthena’s attempts south of the south of the Moon. If labor is successfully landed, it will work for a couple of weeks, the equivalent of a single moon day before the moon begins and before losing power.
Athena will carry more than 10 instruments and missions from NASA and other private companies. That’s not everything – the same 9 falcon that will launch Athens to the moon is not related to three unrelated spaceships. The asteroid-prospecting spacecraft is by the Astroforge Spacebar, in his first mission, a space on the metal spatial metal spatial this year. It is a satellite Lunar Trailblazer for the walk, which will map water on the moon and seeking places of future landing. The third spacecraft built through the epic aerospace is designed to help other satellites move between orbits.
After his landing, the NASA instrument will pierce a gauge to take samples to the moon soil, and then examine possible water deposits and other chemicals. NASA expects to learn that future astronauts have enough amounts to use for future astronauts, which are scheduled to launch in 2027.
Several small vehicles will also be released next to the landing site, including Yaoki Rover in the Dymon plant, and, at 0.5 kg, is the lightest moon ever. 10 kg of Lunar Outpost (MAPP), built by Lunar Outpost, will examine and create a 3D map of the landing site, as well as how to built a 4G phone network in the Lunar environment. Sitting on MapP will be much smaller than the robot built by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute.
Intuitive machines will also open robots that call grace, which will make a series of four hops, jumping to 100 meters of air and goes to a distance of about 200 meters. Until a deep crater that is permanently shadow. Regions. Scientists have seen these regions not warmer than -170 ºC (-274 ° F), with useful ice deposits, but never visited directly. Grace will scan the bottom of this crater, which is about 20 meters, about 45 minutes before you jump again.
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