Artemis Mission
The Artemis mission is a space exploration program initiated by NASA in 2019. The primary aim of the mission is to establish the first human presence on the Moon since 1972, while also laying groundwork for future missions to Mars and beyond. The mission involves sending a series of robotic landers, rovers, and spacecraft to explore various regions of the Moon. Ultimately, it seeks to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2024, with long-term goals in place for further exploration and settlement in deep space.
As part of this effort, multiple launches have been scheduled over the next few years carrying necessary hardware such as landing modules and power systems needed for establishing an outpost on the moon’s surface. Additionally, several cargo flights are planned that will carry scientific instruments required for research at different sites around our planetary neighbor’s landscape — providing new insights into its geological properties as well as its potential resources for resource extraction or colonization efforts down the line.
NASA has already selected two American companies—SpaceX and Blue Origin—to develop rockets capable of ferrying astronauts into lunar orbit as early as 2021. In addition to these vehicles being used exclusively by NASA during their upcoming crewed missions (known collectively under ‘Artemis I’), they will be available commercially after certain milestones are achieved — opening up opportunities within both private industry space travel but also potentially interplanetary tourism ventures too!
In order to ensure successful execution of all aspects associated with this ambitious endeavor (including providing crucial data about radiation levels during flight) there have been significant investments made towards building out a powerful communication infrastructure between Earth & Lunar orbits; one that can seamlessly transfer large amounts information quickly & reliably between varying distances (epecially when compared against current technology). This network consists predominantly from satellites orbiting around both bodies which relay messages from ground stations here on Earth up towards far away destinations such as those found beyond our planet’s atmosphere — including those located within lunar domain itself! As part of these activities networks like Deep Space Network provide deep space communications services across numerous frequencies bands ensuring uninterrupted transmission regardless environment conditions or location relative other planets/moons/etc.. All together this provides us capabilities not seen before allowing us explore universe without limitations imposed past technologies available us now!