Blue Origin, NASA Collaborate to Re-Create Moon-like Gravity in Rockets Set for Artemis Missions
Close Blue Origin, the latest venture of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is collaborating with NASA to turn its New Shepard rockets into a moon simulator to test innovations in moon-like gravity. Blue Origin's Artificial Lunar Gravity The team is set to update the spacecraft bound for the Artemis mission to be used as a capsule-like centrifuge, a laboratory device that rotates force to separate components from liquid and to recreate artificial lunar-gravity for payloads. The device's reaction control thrusters would be able to produce spins of 11 rotations per minute during the flight's free-fall phase,...
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