Category: artemis

NASA demos spacesuits for its Moon and Mars missions

Post author By Randall
Post date October 15, 2019
Categories In artemis, Design, exploration extravehicular mobility unit, gear, Moon, Nasa, patriotic, services, Space, spacesuit, Tech, tomorrow, xemu

[ad_1] Introducing our next-generation spacesuit for #Artemis missions! Here, spacesuit engineer Kristine Davis demonstrates the improved mobility in the new suit, important for working on the Moon’s surface. Watch live: https://t.co/n8wWhy876P pic.twitter.com/9g6sfOaPbf — NASA (@NASA) October 15, 2019 Designing a modern spacesuit is one of the many challenges that NASA faces in its return to […]

Australia will help NASA go to the Moon and Mars

Post author By Randall
Post date September 21, 2019
Categories In artemis, australian space agency, mars, Moon, Nasa, Space, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country is spending $150 million over five years for the collaboration. The newly formed Australian Space Agency will use the budget to “foster the new ideas and hi-tech skilled jobs that will make Australian businesses a partner of choice to fit out Nasa missions.” Artemis, as we […]

NASA’s new moon-landing supercomputer is more powerful and more eco-friendly

Post author By Randall
Post date August 26, 2019
Categories In aitken, artemis, electra, environment, Nasa, Space, supercomputer, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Aitken can run simulations at up to 3.69 petaflops of theoretical performance and has 221 TB of storage. It has 1,150 nodes and 46,080 cores and is powered by a HPE SGI 8600 system using second-generation Intel Xeon processors with Mellanox InfiniBand for networking. To keep all that computing power cool, the housing module […]

NASA’s Orion crew capsule is ready for its uncrewed trip to the Moon

Post author By Randall
Post date July 20, 2019
Categories In artemis, artemis 1, gear, lockheed martin, Moon, Nasa, orion, Space, spaceflight, Tech

[ad_1] The first crewed mission is Artemis 2, currently slated for 2022. The capsule is a relatively complex beast. It has enough survival equipment for 21 days of active crew time, a modern cockpit, automatic docking and a whopping 12 engines. It needs that volume of equipment, though. It’s meant to be the main crew […]

NASA picks first commercial landing partners for return to the Moon

Post author By Randall
Post date May 31, 2019
Categories In artemis, astrobotic, gear, intuitive machines, Moon, Nasa, orbitbeyond, Politics, Science, Space, spaceflight, Tech

[ad_1] Every partner will provide “end-to-end” services like integration, launch and operations. And while each of the companies has proposed flying particular equipment, NASA will decide the exact payloads for each flight before the end of the summer. The possible devices will cover everything from general science through to human landing-oriented tasks like identifying the […]

NASA teams up with SpaceX, Blue Origin to design a human lunar lander

Post author By Randall
Post date May 17, 2019
Categories In artemis, blue origin, Moon, Nasa, Space, Spacex, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The agency is hoping the initiative could lead to the development of a human landing system that includes a transfer vehicle astronauts can use from its proposed orbital moon base called the Gateway to low-lunar orbit. In addition, the lander must also have a descent element that can carry the astronauts to the lunar […]