The Lunar Economy Is Coming

The lunar economy, Complete with your own supply discipline, it may seem like a distant concept but it is The foundation is already hereThe It will centers around to develop the ability to explore the future space for the construction of the moon to build scientific infrastructure on its surface (Moon is a Possible spaceport As for more distant destinations Goodness)

There are many countries and companies to be part of this new lunar gold rash. These include the private space firm in Texas Firefly aerospace. Its Blue Ghost 1 Mission, which was launched on January 15, showed that the first phase of the earth and one of its delivery system is key Moon Would be like to see.

The Blue Ghost Lander in Firefly is currently in transit to the surface of the moon. In order to complete its mission, the module must enter the orbit, a controlled descent for Crissium in the mare – a large basin of the northern hemisphere of the moon – the extreme conditions, deploying scientific equipment and adopting environmental lessons and autonomous drilling and autonomous drilling. Manages

A part of the mission NASA Commercial lunar pay -load service (CLPS) Initiative, under which the aerospace agency is giving contracts to solve space-finding problems. NASA is focusing on sending back to the moon to the bottom of the innovators Artemis The program, however, is the private companies that will send the supply and bring back the samples taken by the crew.

Before that, before the Earth -Moon delivery system is established, companies must prove that they have the technical ability to set up technology on the lunar surface. March 2, when it is about to touch the moon, Blue Ghost will face his decisionful test.

The module is doing 10 tests -conducting. The most significant is one of the computers that measure the resistance of the circuit of space radiation, and a special camera to study the floating resolution phenomenon on the surface of the moon. Lander will also be given the responsibility of taking a lunar eclipse, where the moon falls into the shadow of the earth and therefore blocked from the sun.

Before the moment of the descent, NASA shared some images of the Lander in the lunar orbit.

Moon’s South Pole, captured by a camera at Blue Ghost 1.Photographs: Firefly Aerospace/NASA

Future

Helium -1 attracted the highest interest among lunar materials that can be absorbed: it contains applications as possible fuel for nuclear synthesis -both in quantum computing and in space in space and in medical imaging. A stable isotope of helium with two protons and a neutron, helium -3 does not naturally occur on earth. Nuclear weapons have been produced by a limited amount of examination, nuclear reactor and radioactive erosion and the isotope orders a high price.

It is, of course, produced by the fusion of the sun and fly through the solar system across the solar system. The magnetic places of the earth refer to these helium -3 particles away from our planet, but on the moon, because there is no magnetism that the pockets of the isotopes may remain in the regal. A startup I advised me to try for it On the moon

Also studied is the possibility of using reactions between minerals and water from the lunar surface to produce oxygen and hydrogen, which can be used for rocket propient.

The presence of a sustainable man on the moon is probably more service – and Lunar road, RailwayAnd the concrete has all been proposed. The perception of any of them will begin with the CLP mission like the Blue Ghost. Images like above – Landers are entering the lunar orbit to set up space delivery systems in space. Next will become common in the next few years.

This story was originally attended Wired in Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.