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LUMIO (space Mission)
LUnar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is a planned European Space Agency, ESA List of missions to the Moon, lunar exploration mission expected to launch as early as 2027. The main goal of the mission is to detect, quantify, and characterize the impacts of Near-Earth object, near-Earth meteoroids on the Far side of the Moon, lunar far side. The spacecraft consists of a 12-U CubeSat that will operate in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point, L2 Lagrange point of the Earth-Moon system. It is an autonomus mission of the European Space Agency and is currently being developed by an international consortium which includes Polytechnic University of Milan, Politecnico di Milano, Argotec, Leonardo S.p.A., Leonardo, IMT, Nautilus and S&T Norway. The main scientific payload of LUMIO is a custom-designed optical camera, called LUMIO-Cam, which will observe the lunar surface in Umbra, penumbra and antumbra, umbra to detect the flashes caused by asteroid impacts. Scientific data from the miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunar Exploration
The physical exploration of the Moon began when ''Luna 2'', a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made a deliberate impact on the surface of the Moon on 14 September, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of lunar exploration had been observations from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes, having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. Human exploration of the Moon since Luna 2 has consisted of both crewed and uncrewed missions. NASA's Apollo program has been the only program to successfully land humans on the Moon, which it did six times on the near side in the 20th century. The first human landing took place in 1969, when the Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong touched down on the surface ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
