Australia has prepared a lunar exploration mission with NASA’s Artemis mission in 2026. Photo/Australian Space Agency/Space
CANBERRA – Australia has prepared a lunar rover mission with NASA’s Artemis mission in 2026. The Australian Space Agency (ASA) has not yet named the lunar rover robot that is being prepared.
To name the explorer moon The Australian Space Agency launched a competition open to Australian residents. Everyone is welcome to propose names until the deadline is October 20, 2023.
The Australian Space Agency will choose four of its favorite names publicly suggested by the Community. Then submit the list to public voting and the winner will be announced in early December.
For Australia, the moon landing mission is an important agenda for advancing science and technological development. Moreover, a number of Asian countries, such as China and India, have successfully landed missions on the Moon.
“Using Australia’s world-leading remote operations expertise, this rover will collect lunar soil, known as regolith,” wrote the Australian Space Agency, quoted by SINDOnews, Thursday (7/9/2023).
NASA, through the Artemis program, seeks to pave the way for a permanent and sustainable human presence on and around the moon by the end of the 2020s. The skills and knowledge learned will make possible humanity’s next great leap, namely a manned mission to Mars.
NASA has launched one Artemis mission to date, namely Artemis 1, which sent the uncrewed Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit and back again late last year. The agency is preparing to send four astronauts around the moon on Artemis 2, which is scheduled to lift off in late 2024.
The next mission after that, Artemis 3, will land near the moon’s south pole in late 2025 or 2026, if all goes according to plan. NASA is leveraging a variety of commercial and international partnerships to achieve Artemis’ ambitious goals, such as the inclusion of the Australian rover.
Additionally, the European Space Agency is providing the Orion service module, and SpaceX’s next-generation Starship vehicle will be the program’s first manned lunar lander. NASA is currently working to extract oxygen from samples (regolith) on the moon as a key step towards a sustainable human presence on the moon.
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2023-09-07 10:09:30
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