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2022.08.24 | Artemis I: A preview of the science secondary payloads

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 24 August 2022: 

  • Rachael Craft, NASA Office of Communications — Introduction to the secondary payloads on the Artemis I mission
  • Jacob Bleacher, NASA Chief Exploration Scientist — Summary of the key science objectives of the Artemis I  mission
  • Craig Hardgrove, Principal Investigator of LunaH-Map, Arizona State University — A cubesat creating higher-fidelity maps of near-surface hydrogen in craters and other permanently shadowed regions of the lunar South Pole with neutron spectrometers
  • Joseph Shoa, Architect for Small Satellite Missions, describes LunIR (formerly known as SkyFire) — A Lockheed Martin cubesat that will perform  advanced infrared imaging of the lunar surface
  • Ben Belfris, Principal Investigator on the Lunar IceCube mission by Morehead State University — Searching for water in all forms and other volatiles with an infrared spectrometer
  • OMOTENASHI – JAXA, Japan — Developing the world’s smallest lunar lander and studying the lunar environment
  • EQUULEUS – University of Tokyo/JAXA, Japan — Imaging the Earth’s plasmasphere for a better understanding of Earth’s radiation environment from Earth-Moon LaGrange 2 point
  • Team Miles — Demonstrating propulsion using plasma thrusters and competing in NASA’s Deep Space Derby
  • NEA Scout — Traveling by solar sail to a near-Earth asteroid and taking pictures and other characterisations of its surface 
  • CuSP – Southwest Research Institute — Measuring particles and magnetic fields as a space weather station
  • ArgoMoon – Italian Space Agency, ArgoTec, Italy — Observing the interim cryogenic propulsion stage with advanced optics and software imaging system
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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia