Providing robotic arms to the moon orbit’gateway’ and securing spacecraft tickets
Artemis’ first manned flight in 2023 accompanied by a Canadian astronaut
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Eom Nam-seok = Canada, which is participating in the’Artemis program’, the US plan to return to the moon, announced on the 16th (local time) that it will send its astronauts to lunar orbit in 2023.
A Canadian astronaut will ride a spacecraft together during a pilot Artemis II flight in lunar orbit before NASA’s lunar landing in 2024.
The Artemis II mission is the first manned flight of the Artemis program, and humans revisit the lunar orbit 50 years after the Apollo era, and Canada will win the title of the second country to send its own people to the lunar orbit.
Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Baines said at a press conference that day, “We are proud to announce that we have joined the United States on our first manned mission to the moon after the Apollo Mission.” It will be the second country to send astronauts to.”
Russia and China, including the former Soviet Union, which competed with the United States, have not yet sent astronauts to the lunar orbit, and only a few American astronauts who participated in the Apollo mission from 1968 to 1972 have visited.
The Canadian astronaut’s Artemis II ticket came from the bigger picture as NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) conclude a cooperative agreement on a space station’gateway’ that will be built in lunar orbit by 2026 under the Artemis program and used as a lunar landing point. .
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In this agreement, CSA decided to provide a robotic arm (Canadarm3) equipped with artificial intelligence at the gateway, and NASA decided to give the two seats of the spacecraft, including Artemis II, to Canadian astronauts.
Artemis II uses NASA’s newly developed’Orion’ spacecraft to orbit the moon for 10 days to check the device’s performance and check the lunar flight path to prepare for the lunar landing of Artemis III planned for the following year.
Through the Artemis program, the United States is planning to land two men, including female astronauts, on the moon and establish a resident system by 2028, eventually developing long-range exploration technology to prepare for manned exploration of Mars.
Canada is one of eight countries that have signed an agreement to participate in the Artemis program, and Japan, Australia, Italy, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom are participating.
Canada has emerged in the field of robotic arms, such as providing a shuttle robotic arm and an international space station (ISS). Regarding the gateway robot arm, it is reported that MDA, a Canadian company that produced the ISS robot arm, recently won a contract regarding technical requirements.
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