Wednesday, July 31, 2019

NASA Selects Multiple Companies For Moon Landing Effort

NASA has selected multiple companies across the region to help it move towards a landing of humans on the Moon by 2024, the agency announced on Tuesday, including three companies in Colorado and one in Montana. According to NASA, it is preparing to land humans on the Moon by 2024 through its Artemis program, and has selected 13 companies to help it mature space technologies towards the effort. Among those 13 companies are Advanced Space, of Boulder, Colorado, which is working on advanced lunar navigation techniques; Lockheed Martin, based in Littleton, Colorado, to test materials made from metal powders using solid-state processing to improve the design of spacecraft that operate in high-temperature environments; Bozeman, Montana-based Anasphere, which is working on testing of a compact hydrogen generator for inflating heat shields, which could help deliver larger payloads to Mars, and Colorado Power Electronics in Fort Collins, which is working on technology for "Hall thrusters", which are used to position Earth-orbiting satellites and can also be used in deep space.