If all goes as planned, Australia will send a rover to the moon for the first time in a few years.
L' under the auspices of the Australian Space Agency, the country will deploy a robotic rover on one of NASA's Artemis lunar missions, scheduled to launch in 2026.
“Using Australia World: “The rover will collect lunar soil, known as regolith,” the agency wrote in a statement on Tuesday, Sept. 5. “NASA will try to extract oxygen from the sample. This is an important step towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon".
The rover has yet to have a name, but the Australian Space Agency is working on it. The agency just launched a contest to give this game-changing robot a nickname. If you're an Australian resident, you can enter.
You have until October 1, 20 to submit your entry. The Australian Space Agency will select its four favorites in public tenders and then submit the shortlist to a public vote. The winner will be announced in early December.
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NASA is working to establish a permanent and sustainable human presence on and around the Moon through the Artemis program by the end of the 2020s. The skills and knowledge gained will enable the humanity to take advantage of the next big breakthrough: a crewed mission to Mars, NASA officials say.
NASA has so far launched one Artemis mission. launched – Artemis 1, which sent an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit and back late last year. The agency is preparing to send four astronauts around the Moon aboard Artemis 2, scheduled to launch in late 2024.
The next mission after this, Artemis 3 will land near the lunar south pole at the end of 2025 or 2026, if all goes as planned.
NASA relies on a variety of commercial and international partnerships to achieve Artemis' ambitious goals, as demonstrated by the inclusion of the Australian rover in an upcoming mission. Additionally, the European Space Agency will provide the Orion Service Module, and SpaceX's next-generation Starship vehicle will be the program's first crewed lunar lander.
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If all goes as planned, Australia will send a rover to the moon for the first time in a few years.
L' under the auspices of the Australian Space Agency, the country will deploy a robotic rover on one of NASA's Artemis lunar missions, scheduled to launch in 2026.
“Using Australia World: “The rover will collect lunar soil, known as regolith,” the agency wrote in a statement on Tuesday, Sept. 5. “NASA will try to extract oxygen from the sample. This is an important step towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon".
The rover has yet to have a name, but the Australian Space Agency is working on it. The agency just launched a contest to give this game-changing robot a nickname. If you're an Australian resident, you can enter.
You have until October 1, 20 to submit your entry. The Australian Space Agency will select its four favorites in public tenders and then submit the shortlist to a public vote. The winner will be announced in early December.
Read Also: How Far Aditya-L1 Will Be From Sun?
NASA is working to establish a permanent and sustainable human presence on and around the Moon through the Artemis program by the end of the 2020s. The skills and knowledge gained will enable the humanity to take advantage of the next big breakthrough: a crewed mission to Mars, NASA officials say.
NASA has so far launched one Artemis mission. launched – Artemis 1, which sent an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit and back late last year. The agency is preparing to send four astronauts around the Moon aboard Artemis 2, scheduled to launch in late 2024.
The next mission after this, Artemis 3 will land near the lunar south pole at the end of 2025 or 2026, if all goes as planned.
NASA relies on a variety of commercial and international partnerships to achieve Artemis' ambitious goals, as demonstrated by the inclusion of the Australian rover in an upcoming mission. Additionally, the European Space Agency will provide the Orion Service Module, and SpaceX's next-generation Starship vehicle will be the program's first crewed lunar lander.