Bungwe la US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) latchula kampani yomwe idzatenge VIPER rover kupita ku Mwezi.
Tsamba la bungwe loyang'anira mlengalenga likuti lasaina pangano ndi Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic kwa $ 199,5 miliyoni, malinga ndi zomwe ipereka VIPER rover kum'mwera kwa mwezi kumapeto kwa 2023.
VIPER rover, yopangidwa kuti ifufuze madzi oundana pa satelayiti yachilengedwe yapadziko lapansi, "ithandizira kukonza njira yopita kumtunda kwa mwezi kuyambira mu 2024 ndipo idzabweretsa NASA kuyandikira kukhazikitsa kukhalapo kwanthawi yayitali pa Mwezi gawo la pulogalamu ya Artemis ya bungweli," bungwe loyang'anira zakuthambo lidatero. USA.
Kutumiza VIPER ku Mwezi ndi gawo la pulogalamu ya NASA ya Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), yomwe imathandizira ogwira nawo ntchito ku bungweli kuti apereke mwachangu zida zasayansi ndi zolipira zina pamwamba pa satana yachilengedwe ya Earth. Pansi pa mgwirizano, Astrobotic imayang'anira ntchito zoperekera kumapeto mpaka kumapeto kwa VIPER, kuphatikiza kuphatikiza ndi Griffin lander, kukhazikitsidwa kuchokera ku Earth, ndikutera pamtunda wa mwezi.
Pa ntchito yamasiku 100 yapadziko lapansi, VIPER rover idzayenda makilomita angapo pogwiritsa ntchito zida zake zinayi zasayansi kuyesa malo osiyanasiyana a nthaka. Atatu mwa iwo akuyembekezeka kuyesedwa pa Mwezi pamishoni za CLPS mu 2021 ndi 2022. Rover idzakhalanso ndi chobowolera kuti chilowe pamwamba pa mwezi mpaka kuya kwa 3 mapazi (pafupifupi 0,9 m).
"Tikuchita zomwe sitinachitepo - kuyesa zida pa Mwezi pomwe rover ikupangidwa. VIPER ndi malipiro ambiri omwe tidzatumiza kumtunda kwa zaka zingapo zikubwerazi zitithandiza kuzindikira mphamvu zazikulu za sayansi za Mwezi, "anatero NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen.
Source: 3dnews.ru