Anonymous ID: c5418c March 19, 2019, 11:39 a.m. No.5774894   🗄️.is 🔗kun

New Shill for Meme: Cult Shill

They're trying to head off the inevitable NXVIUM cult awareness by simply calling everything a "cult".

Anonymous ID: c5418c March 19, 2019, 11:47 a.m. No.5775008   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5021 >>5056 >>5061

Jan 29, 2018, 06:40am

NewSpace Start-Up Aims To Send First Brazilian Probe To Moon

 

NewSpace start-up ‘Airvantis’ is aiming for a 2021 launch of Brazil’s first lunar probe that would circle the Moon in a highly- elliptical orbit. The hope is that the nominal six month cubesat mission’s 7-kilogram payload — dubbed ‘Garatea L’ — will both further astrobiology and reveal new deep space radiation insights that one day might help astronauts on a mission to Mars.

 

Lucas Fonseca, a space systems engineer and the Sao Paulo and New York-based company’s founder, told me that he remains hopeful that this Garatea L mission will achieve its full $10 million funding. That would ensure that it will be launched as planned as part of a multi-national payload atop a PSVL-XL rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India.

 

The launch is headed up by U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. as a lunar pathfinder mission that will include both transport and communications links for the payloads.

 

The priority is to understand how both biomolecules and so-called ‘extremophile’ bacteria are affected by extraordinarily harsh deep space environments. That is, when they are exposed to high-energy galactic cosmic rays and solar protons. The team also wants to determine how bacteria known to survive under Earth’s toughest conditions — in a real-time unprotected lunar environment.

 

As a result, the team will be able to identify genetic adaptation that could be applied for future crewed missions, or even on Earth.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2018/01/29/newspace-start-up-aims-to-send-first-brazilian-probe-to-moon/#1ea7341f270d