![]() ![]() Imperial College London is providing a magnetometer for the Lunar Gateway, as part of the European Radiation Sensor Array.The US worked with the UK, along with other spacefaring nations including Japan, Australia, Canada, Italy and the UAE, to develop the Artemis Accords: a set of principles to ensure a shared understanding of safe operations, use of space resources, minimising space debris and sharing scientific data. ![]() In 2020, the UK signed the Artemis Accords with NASA and partner space agencies around the world. UK companies are also involved in some of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) missions that will see lunar payloads delivered to the surface of the Moon by commercially operated companies. Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd’s Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft will offer communications and navigation services on the lunar surface from 2025. Thales Alenia Space UK will provide the refuelling module on the Gateway, which will support future lunar missions.Īrtist's impression of Lunar Gateway in orbit around Moon. The UK is making important contributions to the Lunar Gateway - a space station currently in development that will orbit the Moon - as part of the Artemis programme. This is a major step for our capacity to offer commercial lunar communications from the UK. The Artemis I mission was tracked in the UK from Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall. The UK is playing its part in this, with forward-thinking, innovative companies to capitalise on this opportunity. A recent PwC study estimated it to have a value of $170 billion (£144 billion) by 2040. The lunar economy is set to take off in the next decade. Renewed interest in the Moon – from partners all around the world – presents a great opportunity for the UK. The agency expects the first Artemis astronauts to land on the lunar surface in 2025. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I was the first uncrewed flight before NASA sends the first crewed Artemis mission into space, planned in 2024. The Artemis I mission saw the first launch of the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which took the NASA-built Orion capsule, with the European Space Agency-built service module that includes Orion’s engines, towards the Moon at the end of 2022. The mission broke several records including the longest spacewalk and largest lunar samples brought back to Earth and also involved several experiments, including sending five mice into space with the crew.The Artemis I mission on the launchpad in Florida. This will be the first set of missions that NASA has used to send a crew to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, more than 50 years ago. The mission will take approximately 10 days, but the system will need to undergo massive amounts of testing first to make sure it can support humans living and working in deep space, NASA said. "Artemis I was a resounding success and Artemis II will leverage that by putting humans in the loop." "With Artemis I, we set out to prove that the hardware was ready, that SLS was prepared to launch our astronauts skyward, that Orion was equipped to carry them to the moon and back safely again," said Norman Knight, director of Flight Operations Directorate at NASA. It will be the first crewed mission aboard NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the first to launch on the agency's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. ![]()
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