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| | | | | A first-of-its-kind camera developed in partnership between CU Boulder and Ball Aerospace will soon be landing on the moon. NASA announced today that it has selected a scientific instrument, called the Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System (L-CIRiS), for its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The camera will ride along with one of three robotic landers that will touch down on the lunar surface in the next several years-a key step in NASA's goal of sending people back to the moon by 2024. LASP planetary scientist Paul Hayne, who is leading the development of the instrument, said that the goal is to collect better maps of the lunar surface to understand how it formed and its geologic history. L-CIRiS will use infrared technology to map the temperatures of the shadows and boulders that dot the lunar surface in greater detail than any images to date. | |
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masten.aero
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| | | | | Masten's Xelene lunar lander will deliver several instruments to assess the composition of the Moon, detect volatiles and evaluate radiation. | |
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www.lunaroutpost.com
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| | | | | Lunar Outpost's MAPP Rover will be the first commercial rover to explore the moon, and the first rover to voyage to the South Pole regionThe mission will carry commercial payloads from MIT to a football club, execute the first sale of space resources with NASA through regolith collection, and gather critical data to shape the future of lunar exploration26 February 2025Lunar Outpost, a leader in planetary mobility and space resource utilization, is set to redefine the future of space exploration | |
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www.dlr.de
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| | | On 22 February 2024, the US 'New Space' company Intuitive Machines became the first private company to land on the Moon with its IM-1 Odysseus mission. The landing site is located around 800 kilometres north of the lunar South Pole, east of the Malapert A crater. According to Intuitive Machines, the landing took place just 1500 metres from the intended landing site, meaning that Odysseus is located in the south of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin which measures over 2000 kilometres in diameter. The exact landing coordinates are 80.13 degrees South and 1.44 degrees East. The lander is on a surface at an incline of 12 degrees and topographical height of 2579 metres above the reference 'selenoid' - a modelled 'lunar surface' with identical gravitational pull. | ||
