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Masten Space Systems To Deliver Cargo To Moon

  • 10 Jun 2020

  • NASA has selected a California-based company called Masten Space Systems to deliver and operate eight payloads to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the foundation for human expeditions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024.
  • The payloadsare being delivered under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative as part of the agency's Artemis programme.
  • Artemis– Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sunis NASA’s next mission to the Moon. Its objective is to measure what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic field to protect it.
  • Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology.