Houston in both territories of their lunar trade, Houston-based internal landers have a high expectation. Athena, Athena, Multi-element, NASA protected mission – to launch Wednesday to help humans open the way to human expeditions and search for ice.
The Lift of the PAD 39A of Kennedy Space Center is 7:16. Athena Lander has not assumed that Mosalike is expected to press a flat structure known as Mons Mouton, which is known as Mons Mouton on March 6. The landing area is 100 miles from the south pole of the Moon.
Intuitive machines
The other private soil of the bathroom was the blue ghost of the fireman’s aerospace Falcon 9 SpaceX launched a rocket on January 15 It lands on the moon on Sunday. Touching near the center of Mare Crisium, it is equipped with 10 NASA protected tools to collect the necessary data in the agency’s planned agency program.
Ghost blue 9 falcon 9 shared with another moon Lander, which is built in Japanese companies. It is a low-energy route for the moon and is expected to land in May.
Athena is different about the plane
Athena Lander is a more complex role with broader science purposes. Intuitive machine managers say that dozens of upgrades and improvements have inserted the company’s first Lander, Odysseus, Touch while Last February.
“Every time you go … Steve Altemus said Steve Altemus said.” I think we have greater confidence, but this time we have a much more complicated task.
“This time we are flying with a wide drill. We are flying with an expandable rover, Hops flying with a drone with rocket, flying on the ground and jumps through the surface (crater).
“These implementation and surface operations are new, and we will learn when we do them,” he said.
Athena Lander will examine the cold grounds below the spectacle of trident drill and mass spectrometer. Lander will also open a small trade rover and a potential rocket, which will jump with 300 meters high, in the nearby crater, looking for ice deposits.
The ice would be critical for future astronauts, if it comes out, drinking water, air and rocket can become fuel, giving on the site otherwise the resources that should be carried from the ground.
Expedal
The data collected when the satellites in the orbit, indicate ice deposits that the light of the sun may not be in the cold and dark districts inside the polar craters who never see the sunlight. Athena’s mission is the first to seek the alleged ice surface.
Hopper, Grace Named Grace Pioneer Grace Hopper and a company called a company called Lunar Outpost will communicate with Athena Lander to Athena Lander, through the cellular networks provided by Nokia, at a primary demonstration.
Labeling other spaceships
A small micro area known as the Yaoki name given by Dymon Co. in Tokyo, the surface of Athena Lander will fall. He will give images about the soil or rololite of the moon and returned to the ground through Athena.
All that is not enough just in case 9. Falcon boat walk.
Nasa’s Lunar Trailblazer launched shortly on his career, he made an orbit around the poles of the moon. In a two-year mission, the two instruments will examine the ice ice ice that could be on the ground floor while surface temperatures measure the global scale.
The second hitchhiker is a commercially built probe called Odin, built by Astroforge, headed by the heading space in an asteroid prospecting mission. It will be the first probe to fly beyond the moon, it will go with asteroid flyby, looking for potential mineral deposits.
The third satellite, known as Chimera Geo, was given by Aerospace Epic. Small satellites is a compact spacecraft built to move to different locations in space.
Grace Hopper may end the star of the show. Five outlets first lead to a height of about 65 meters, from Athen to the ground of 65 meters.
“We hope to have an altitude of about 50 meters (164 meters). And around 100 meters (328 meters), Trent Martin said, vice president of intuitive machines.
Intuitive machines
The fourth hop grace will lead to 1,500 of the lander in a constant shadow crater. It is fifth and last hop, ordered by Nokia network or activated by a protective timer, Gracie must go back and take it out of the crater.
“The aim of the demo is to show that Rovers can reach extreme environments with other technologies,” Martin said. “The idea is if you have a deep crater and want to get down in that crater, why don’t you do something like a drone?”
Mission costs
NASA paid an intuitive $ 62 million to deliver Trident Drume and Mass Spectrometer, collectively known collectively to the moon. The NASA’s “Tipping Point” technology development program paid $ 15 million to help you finance the integration of Nokia communications and finance another 41 million intuitive Grace Hopper.
In the end, the NASA spent $ 89 million in Lunar Trailblarer satellite and mission operations. NASA Total cost: $ 207 million.
The main mission was funded by the Moon Commercial Services (CLPS) initiative.
CLPS programs are aimed at reliving private industries to the moon, collecting data and engineering data, before the Artemis astronauts begin, this decade later around the South poles.
“NASA invests in commercial sending services, investing in industry growth and the exploration of the United States will help you move forward in space innovation,” Nicola Fox, head of the Directorate of Nasa Science Sciences.
The second CLPS of the intuitive machine of Athena protects Lunar Lander. The company’s first Lander, Odysseus, touched on the moon on February 22nd 2024. But the spacecraft was harder than expected and moved towards the moment of the touch. Apparently he caught walking on the surface and joined his side.
The spacecraft had power, however, and sent the data several days. This time, many innovative versions were placed to ensure the safe landing of Athena.
“In the moon, scientists and engineers who want to fly to the moon will be willing to invest in money, they will be willing to build and engineering systems that will help us live and work on the moon.” Altemo said.
“They are the initial routes or routes that open a new region to explore the moon. As the United States was very young, go west, right? That’s how.”
