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Two companies, Astrobotic Technology and Intuitive Machines, have spaceflights planned in the coming weeks and are vying to be the first private companies to land on the moon. Two technologies developed at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton will be aboard the flights.
Engineers at NASA Langley Research Center showed off new technology that will launch to the lunar surface starting Monday.
HAMPTON — Technologies developed at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton are about to be launched into space as two private companies vie to the be the first commercial flights to land on the moon. If either of the flights is successful, it will mark the first U.S. moon landing since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. In the coming weeks, the technologies will be launched aboard two flights ...
Researchers developed 2 new pieces of equipment which will launch under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — At NASA Langley’s Measurement Systems Laboratory, they are using lasers, and also cameras, to help lunar landers land on the surface of the moon. “There’s a laser inside the box,” said Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) principal investigator Farzin Amzajerdian. “That laser beam is divided into three different beams. It then comes […]