New age Among us to explore the commercial moon, one of the most exciting tasks is about to launch – one loaded with Rover, drilling, and even a Qadous spacecraft you will try to “jump” to permanently a dark moon hole to search for ice.
the IM-2 missionFrom Intuitive Machines, which is based in Texas, is scheduled to be launched on A. Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday, February 26 NassaAnd the US Space Agency is trying to create A new moon economy The upcoming human missions can support the moon.
“NASA and the space industry create a new work, as it gets science and load on the moon,” says Laura Forsik, the Georgia Space Consulting Foundation. “These unsuccessful tasks are preparing to send humans.”
IM-2 is funded by NASA program called commercial commercial commercial load services, or CLPS, which started in 2018 under its first management Trump. The goal was to give money to private companies to travel to travel to the moon, and to carry NASA tools and other equipment to the moon, before the planned humans in this contract returned in Artemis program. until $ 2.6 billion The financing was allocated until 2028, when the intuitive machines receive $ 47 million for this task.
The CLPS has achieved mixed results so far. Its first mission, Peregrine Lander, built by Astrobooth, which is based in Pennsylvania, is based in the state of fuel and fuel leak Abandoned her attempt to land In Jan She fell alongside her. “We have been able to restore some data, but we do not want to end with our side in this task,” says Trent Martin, Vice President of Space Systems in intuitive machines.
IM-2 will join another mission of the CLPS in the moon that has already been launched, Blue Ghost Lander From Firefly of Texas, which is scheduled to try to land in early March. Blue Ghost targets an area in the northern hemisphere of the moon, the Sea of Calm, near the APOLLO 11 mission in 1969. It can be said of a greater scientific interest.
Scientists believe that there may be ice that is besieged on the columns of the moon, especially in Permanent areas permanentlyOr psrs. These are the drilling near the columns that, due to the tilt of the moon towards the sun, do not receive sunlight on the inside. The temperatures on the moon can fluctuate between -150 and 120 ° C (-250 and 250 degrees Fahrenheit) as it turns from night to day during the day of the moon (which is almost the same length on the face of the earth). However, at PSRS temperatures never rises above -170 ° C.
