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The Lunar Economy Is Coming
The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon supply chain.
To complete its mission, the module must enter orbit, make a controlled descent to Mare Crisium—a large basin in the moon’s northern hemisphere—survive the extreme conditions, deploy its scientific equipment, and take environmental readings and conduct autonomous drilling and regolith extraction. The mission is part of NASA’sCommercial Lunar Payload Services(CLPS) initiative, under which the space agency is awarding contracts to companies to solve space-exploration problems. Among the most notable are a computer that measures the resistance of circuits to space radiation and a special camera for studying the phenomenon of floating regolith—dust particles that are held in suspension above the moon’s surface.
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