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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Lunar Exploration _ LUMIO & VMMO : two cubeSats for the moon

Posted by: Jackbauer Feb 4 2018, 09:48 PM

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/CubeSats_for_hunting_secrets_in_lunar_darkness

The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Orbiter, or Lumio for short, would circle over the far side of the Moon to detect bright impact flashes during the lunar night, mapping meteoroid bombardments as they occur.

The other, the Lunar Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter, or VMMO, would focus on a permanently shadowed crater near the lunar south pole, searching out deposits
of water ice and other volatiles of interest to future colonists, while also measuring lunar radiation.


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