Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin conquers the contract to take NASA ROVER on the moon
NASA Viper Lunar The rover could be delivered to the moon of blue origin, Jeff Bezos’ Aerospace Company. The American Space Agency has awarded the company’s order for the task of designing the delivery plan for the Rover, with the future delivery option.
The award, worth 190 million dollars, is presented through NASA programming local services (CLPS) which the Agency used to buy delivery services to the month from private companies. The award does not imply a direct delivery contract; First, NASA will check if blue origin is able to successfully send expensive Viper Rover to the moon-south pole. To be eligible to download the ribbon, the company must put your blue moon MK1 Munar Lander-Coll with our technology – on the moon surface by the end of 2025. Years.
The blue origin won in this Agreement to send a load to the month of 2023. year, and designed the Blue Mk1 to fulfill it. On this mission, there will be our stereo cameras that will implement surface surveys, in addition to small spheres equipped with laser mission monitoring technology.
“There is an option for delivery and secure rover deployment on the moon surface. The NASA will decide to achieve this option after the execution and examination of the first flight of blue origin from the MK1 Lander,” said the statement.
On the same day, he announced the blue background, “Our second blue moon MK1 Lander has already been in production and in good mk1 Lander, this mission is important for future lunar permanence and they will learn about the origin and distribution of water on the moon.”
Viper-who represents volatile investigating Polar Exploration Rover – they designed NASA scientists to explore the Lunar South Pole for LEDs and other resources of interest. It is about 2.5 meters high, weighs almost 500 kilograms and has a single drill and three scientific instruments. The vehicle was supposed to be launched in 2023. years, just for that date to retire back. Then, faced with growing costs and further delay, 2024. years, Nasa said he canceled the mission. The CLPS reward appears to be the blue origin that revived the program.
The arrival of private space companies has the potential to reduce the traditional costs of the universe, while enabling mission managers to focus on scientific issues. Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and Spacex are just some of the companies that have emerged in this sector and won CLPS contracts with NASA.
“NASA is taking the world in research for more months than ever before, and this delivery is only one of the many ways to use the American Lunar area,” the acting administrator said Sean Duffy in the statement. “Our rover will explore the extremely surrounding southern pole, permanently shaded regions to help keep future landing sites and better understanding of people in longer missions, because America leads our future in space.”
This story originally appeared Wired In Spanish And he was translated from Spanish.
6,000 planets were found outside the solar system
Number Confirmed planets outside our solar system known as exoplains – rose to 6,000, said NASA. There is a great diversity in these distant worlds, the Space Agency says, with findings, including rocky planets, lion worlds and gas giants that include their stars.
Quite more discoveries is probably on the way. As a result of continuous monitoring of NASA’s Exoplanetic Science Institute (Nexss), more than 8,000 potential planets were identified and awaiting confirmation. It planned with future missions, including Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the worldwide Observatory in the world, the American Space Agency hopes for more planets such as land and worlds with possible signs of life.
This turning point of 6,000 planets comes 30 years after the first exoplanet detected the orbit of the star similar to our sun. “This milestone represents the decades of cosmic research, who has managed and researching a company banning how humanity looked at the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman said, the acting of the Astrophysics headquarters in the statement. “Step by step, discovering to characterization, our mission built the foundations to respond to a fundamental question: are we ourselves?”
As the number of confirmed exoplanets increased, the scientific community could build a picture of the planet population through the universe. Researchers estimate that the rocky planets appear to be most common in the universe. They also discovered the planets of the size of Jupiter who is the Orbit closer to his star than Mercury on our sun or planets that have two stars. Some discovered worlds are covered with a lion; Others are surrounded by clouds of precious stones.
“Each of the different types of planets that we discover gives us the conditions of the conditions under which they can form and, in order to ultimately, how the usual planets like the country could and where we were supposed to look for,” Dawn Gelino, the Exoplanet Head of Explanet Investigation. “If we want to find out if we are alone in the universe, it’s all knowledge.”
Although the number of confirmed exoplanets reached 6,000, there are only about 100 that scientists could immediately observe. This is because the light from distant worlds is often so faints to merge into the light that is the mother star emitted. Detection methods are therefore usually indirect; Among the most common is the transit method that includes the detection of the planet by observing the IT orbit, which slides a short time because the planet passes in front of it from our perspective.