Source: cnBeta.COM
According to foreign media reports, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company (Blue Origin) will be NASA before NASA’s goal of returning to the moon Provide a valuable scientific tool: it can simulate the moon's gravity operation experiment in the suborbital space closer to the earth.
NASA revealed that Blue Origin will transform its reusable New Shepard suborbital carrier rocket to increase the lunar gravity approximation by rotating the spacecraft's capsule. This will effectively turn it into a large centrifuge, which will mean that the objects inside will experience a gravitational force very close to the surface of the moon.
is not that there is no way to simulate the gravity of the moon, but the way New Shepard implements the system will bring two benefits, which are incomparable by existing methods. Longer duration, continuous artificial lunar gravity exposure time of more than two minutes, and larger payload capacity will release experimental capabilities that are currently unachievable due to space constraints.
Blue Origin expects that this new capability of New Shepard will be ready by 2022-this is a very important timing, because the whole idea is to help support NASA's Artemis program, which is its The mission series will witness the return of human lunar exploration, including the establishment of a longer-term occupant research presence in lunar orbit and the lunar surface.
The gravity on the surface of the moon is about one-sixth of the surface of the earth. NASA also pointed out that this requires not only experiments to prepare for the lunar mission, but also support for the eventual launch to the Mars crew.
Blue Origin is still cooperating with NASA to develop manned crews for its lunar missions through aerospace industry teams including , Lockheed Martin , Northrop Grumman and Draper. Lander.
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