Mexico City. The National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) will participate for the first time in a suborbital mission to the stratosphere with Emidds-6 (Experimental Module for the Iterative Design of Satellite Subsystems version 6). The flight will depart from Antarctica.
Invited by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States National Science Foundation, the IPN will participate with its experimental module in the mission, scheduled for the end of December and January. The ship will depart from McMurdo Base, located at the southern end of Ross Island – near New Zealand, at the south pole – which is operated by the Antarctic Program.
Mario Alberto Mendoza Bárcenas, researcher at the Aerospace Development Center (CDA) of the IPN, and leader of the project, explained that the special mission FY25 with the Emidss-6 It will have a trajectory of one revolution in 15 days, equivalent to one revolution around the Earth, aboard super-pressure balloons (SPB) that allow for a high level of flotation.
One of the purposes is the development of the first stage of instrumentation to identify contaminants, mainly microplastics in the stratosphere, through a system that captures images of the environment related to altitude, during the rise of the platform to its maximum floating point. .
He indicated that, since the polar vortex is a persistent high-pressure system that forms a unique atmospheric circulation pattern over Antarctica, it allows the globe to maintain a constant altitude for a longer period.
Under these environmental conditions, the module Emidss-6 You will be able to collect and store data for the development of graphics and learn about the characterization of the stratospheric environment in low latitudes with Mexican aerospace technology.
Mendoza Bárcenas pointed out that the module will record environmental variables through sensors for measuring humidity, temperature, relative humidity and ultraviolet radiation with commercial grade devices.
In July, NASA experts will submit the Emidss-6 to strict technical and electromagnetic compatibility evaluations based on standards, so that, at the end of the year, the payload participates in the suborbital mission from Antarctica. Finally, he reported that the mission’s work team will be made up of experts from the IPN, as well as from the Institutes of Applied Sciences and Technology and Engineering, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico; in addition to the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Studies and the Molina Center for Energy and Environment.
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– 2024-04-07 04:16:30
