Suara.com – European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a constellation of satellites to create a permanent communication network around the Moon.
ESA is contributing to NASA’s Artemis mission, which aims to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by providing essential components.
It includes a communication module for a new space station around the Moon, the Lunar Gateway, as well as communication relays such as the Lunar Pathfinder.
The two consortia spearheaded by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited and Telespazio will make plans to establish a communication link between Earth and the Moon.
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“By using ESA-supported telecommunications and navigation services on the Moon, astronauts will be able to smoothly navigate and transmit data to Earth,” said Elodie Viau, Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications.
According to Viau, a strong, reliable and efficient communication and navigation system will keep many individual missions planned to the Moon.
This move becomes more cost-effective and allows small nations to become the next space explorers.
However, the project is likely to interfere with the LCRT development mission (Lunar Crater Radio Telescope) which will build a giant radio telescope on the crater of the Moon.
The LCRT will be on the far side of the Moon and thanks to its unique location and lack of interference, it can study the cosmic dark ages, periods of time in the universe when no stars were born yet.
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However, a large number of communications satellites will have an impact on the LCRT project because such scientific investigations require that the Moon’s sky remains clear.
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