CABO CAÑAVERAL, Florida, USA. (AP) — China and India have recorded gains, amid plans by Russia, Japan and Israel to end in the lunar basin.
Today, private companies are committed to getting the United States back to the Moon, more than five decades after the conclusion of the Apolo program.
This is part of an initiative launched by NASA to launch commercial exchanges by natural satellite, which is why the space agency decided to invest in the flight towards recruiting astronauts.
“It’s explorers who van a la Luna before we were them,” said Bill Nelson, NASA administrator.
Astrobotic Technology, based in Pittsburgh, will be the first to carry out the next planned project of a landing module aboard a new group, the Vulcan, from United Launch Alliance. Houston-based Intuitive Machines aims to launch a landing module in mid-February at a SpaceX community.
It is Japan, which intends to fly over the course of several weeks. The Espacial Japonese Agency’s optimization module — which charges the toy-sized explorer vehicles — was released ahead of a September launch with an X-ray telescope that remained in Earth’s orbit.
If you have experience, Japan will convert to five countries to make an allocation. Russia and the United States did this several times during the 1960s and 1970s. China was informed three times in the last 10 years — including in the occult decay of the Moon — and found the occult cara at the end of this year for its next musicians. lunar. And apenas el verano pasado, India lo logró. Only the United States has astronauts on the natural satellite.
The moon does not shock easily: it stops the atmosphere to reduce the speed of a space, and by the same token, the parachutes obviously do not work. This means that a power module must descend using thrusters while navigating through the rings and tracer boxes.
The ispace earthmoving module, from the company of a Japanese millionaire, appeared on the Moon last April, following a Russian traveler in August. India cheated a day after South Polo region announcement; This is the second intention of this country after the first appeared in 2019. The module of an Israeli organization without fine income also changed on the Luna in 2019.
The United States had no intention of providing education because of Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apolo 17 mission — the last 12 astronauts to walk on the Moon — exploring the gray surface and pollution in December 1972. Marte turned to attraction and the Moon became involved in NASA projects, so that the space career between the United States and the Soviet Union was heading towards its end. Washington ended up with one of the lunar satellites, but there was no controlled attack module until now.
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines not only intend to work following the United States’ curriculums, as they count for the right to presume that they will be the first private entity to land — suavely — on our natural satellite.
During your late start, Intuitive Machines followed a quickest and most direct route, and is expected to finish a week later. Astrobotic will do it for two weeks solo to go to the Moon, and will stay in lunar orbit for another few months before attempting to land on February 23.
If there is feedback on the fate of colleagues, something that previously was engaged in missions, each person from both companies could do it first.
“It will be an emotional journey, very emotional,” promised John Thornton, executive director of Astrobotic.
Steve Altemus, his counterpart at Intuitive Machines, said the space career was “more than just geopolitics, about China, about the rest of the world.” I said, “sure we will be the best”.
The two companies are in direct jurisdiction to each receive $80 million in 2019 thanks to a NASA program to develop entry services to the Moon. There are currently 14 companies that have contracts with NASA.
Astrobotic’s 1.9 meter (6 foot) altitude, four-legged landing module, named Peregrine in honor of the fastest, the Halcón Peregrino, will carry 20 investigative packets from each country to the Moon , including five from NASA and a shoebox-sized explorer vehicle from Carnegie Mellon University. The peregrine will appear in the mid-latitudes of sinus viscosity, or in the bay of pegacity, so called by the silicon magma that has a long time to form the Domos Gruithuisen cercanos.
Nova-C, the 4-meter (14-foot) altitude landing module and legs from Intuitive Machines, is the focus of the polo region on the Moon, and is also conducting five experiments for NASA that last approximately two weeks. The company has a latitude point of 80 degrees for its allocation. This one arrived inside Antarctica in Earth, Altemus reported, and 10 degrees closer to polo in India managed to get it across.
Scientists estimate that the polo crates on, constantly at night, contain miles of millions of kilograms of frozen water that can be used for drinking and produce fuel for food. That’s why the early lunar arrivals from NASA’s Artemisa program — which brought the Apollo hermana gemela number into gray mitology — unified them all. NASA now has the launch planned for 2025, but the US National Accounting Office predicts it will happen closer to 2027.
Astrobotic will head towards the polo on your second view, heading towards NASA’s Viper Explorer Vehicle, which will be looking for water. And Intuitive Machines will accompany you on your second mission and provide you with a taladro for the NASA game.
Finding polo on the Moon is particularly difficult.
“The polo is very rocky and steep, as well as crater holes and mountains, that it is very difficult to find a lighted area to descend in a safe manner,” Altemus said. “So you can do it with utility and get it right.”
While Houston has been blessed with space exploration for a long time, Pittsburgh is a city recently engaged in this activity. To commemorate the call of the City of Acerope, the astrobotic training module will bring a file from the Kennywood entertainment park, the organizer of a public voice superior to the Toalla Terrible of the Steelers during American football games, to the park land. Luna del municipio Luna, you have a Heinz brand pepinillo pine.
The simulation module also carries the celebrities or DNA of 70 characters, including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Another 265 people are shown in the group’s upper stage, which orbit toward the ground once separated from the integration module. Among them, there are the three integrators of the original “Star Trek” film, as well as the men of the leader of the three presidents of the United States: George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
_____
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Physician Science and Education Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
