(Finance) – Man returns to the moon with the aim of staying and build a suitable and comfortable environment for human life. This is the goal that kicks off the Artemis-1 mission conducted by NASA with the participation of the European Space Agency and for unmanned SLS rocket launch.
The mission will start Monday 29 August around 14:33 Italian timefrom the space center JF Kennedy, Florida, where the vector that will take the Orion capsule into orbit will take off, without men on board. Reserve dates Friday 2nd September and Monday 5th September.
The Artemis 1 mission will only be the first step of a project that will lead man to fly over the lunar orbit with the mission Artemis II And in 2025 to touch the lunar surface again with the mission Artemis IIIover fifty years after the first landing with the mythical Apollo mission.
The program will see Italy in the front row thanks to the contribution of the Space Agency (ASI) and companies such as Leonardo and Thales Alenia Spacewhich have made several components of Orionin addition to a number of small and medium-sized enterprises tricolor, like the Turin one Argotec.
“We are returning to the moon to stay sustainable”announces Thales Alenia Space, which is designing an entire lunar ecosystem, working on vehicles, manned and unmanned orbital infrastructures, robotics and ground-based solutions to allow you to get to the Moon, live on its surface, using the available resources.
Numerous key technologies provided by Thales Alenia for Orion, the spacecraft that will take astronauts to lunar orbit within the Artemis mission, contributing with a central role to European Service Form (ESM), developed for the European Space Agency (ESA).
Leonardo is partner of the program, with the supply of photovoltaic panels (PVA) and power control and distribution units (PCDU) for ESM modules 1 to 6.