The Nova-C Lander of intuitive machines is located on the lunar surface in this illustration. In the foreground there is the MAPPER, equipped with a Nokia cell communication system. Credit: Nokia Bell Labs
When Athena Lunar Lander of intuitive Machines makes the fall of the moon around 12:30 East on Thursday, the spectators on Earth will be able to see him happen.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab is collaborating with Comcast to transmit the landing on the South pole of the Moon, share 3D lunar images never seen before and provide live updates of the mission of 20 days on X1, streaming and the live TV platform of XFinity. The coverage will also appear on a website developed jointly by the partners.
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“Our return to the moon does not only concern the progress of technology, but to inspire the next generation of explorers who are alive today and will travel on the moon in their lives,” said Ariel Ekblaw, the main investigator for the lunar mission of Mit. “Working with Xfinity to bring the incredible images and videos that we collect on the lunar surface to people around the world, we are making it easy for everyone to experience the moon in ways they never have before.”
MIT is one of the numerous Payload customers on the IM-2 Mission Mission Machines, a following in the 2024 mission during which she pulled out the first successful private lunar landing. His three scientific payloads are supported by NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) and are intended to help collect information to help the human lunar lunar of Artemis III, scheduled for the launch of the southern pole of the Moon in mid -2017.
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“Athena” transports Rover (MAPP) by Lunar Outpost Platform Autonomous Perspecting Platform), which will venture to about 1 mile through the collection surface of samples for NASA. MAP will range the three Payloads of MIT: the robotic swarm in miniature Astroant, the humanity combined with the art of Mit and the nanotechnology in space (human) and a camera that takes photos and videos.
Those images will be transmitted to the control of the mission and broadcast on 3D television screens. If the conditions allow it, the camera will also catch the first Earth’s eclipse, when it blocks the sun – from the moon.
To access the live streaming of landing and key mission objectives, X1 spectators can give the “moon” command to their remote voice. Comcast has declared that it plans to expand the experience through its entertainment platforms in the future.
Note of the editor: This story appeared for the first time Fly.
