Wednesday, 17 May 2023 – 11:07 WIB
LIVE Techno – NASA or the United States Aeronautics and Space Agency officially stopped looking for hidden ice on the surface of the crater at the South Pole of the Moon after the Lunar Flashlight Cubesat, which carried out a mission that failed miserably alias gatot, generated enough thrust to reach its intended orbit.
Launched in December, this suitcase-sized spacecraft is designed to enter near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon and uses lasers to screen dark surface fissures on ice-seeking missions.
The probe quickly ran into trouble when its four thrusters, which use a type of propulsion system that had never previously flown beyond Earth orbit, failed, according to The Register’s website, Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
“It is disappointing for the science team and for the entire Lunar Flashlight team, that we cannot use our laser reflectometer to make measurements on the Moon,” said Barbara Cohen, principal mission investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
But like all systems, Cohen collects a wealth of in-flight performance data on the instrument that will be invaluable for future iterations of this technique.
The Lunar Flashlight Cubesat also carries a new Sphinx flight computer – a low-power, radiation-amplified system developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There’s also Iris – an improved navigation radio for rendezvous and landing on the Moon.
2023-05-17 04:07:00
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