Colorado Experiments To Be Sent To Lunar Surface
Payloads For Commercial Lunar Services Providers Include Surface Electromagnetics Experiment, Which Could Be First Radio Telescope On Moon Surface; Co-Investigator Jack Burns Of University Of Colorado Is Also Principal Investigator Of Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder Planned To Orbit Lunar Far Side By 2023; Colorado-Built Experiments For NASA CLPS Include Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System To Explore Moon’s Composition And Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, Which Will Study Moon’s Crust
Credits: Orbit Beyond, University of Colorado Boulder
NASA Laser Retroreflectors Are On Two Upcoming Lunar Landings, Israel Beresheet (L) Scheduled For 11 April And India Chandrayaan-2 (R) Launching Apr; Unpowered Laser Reflectors Will Be Useful For Lunar Navigation, Measuring The Moon’s Changing Distance From Earth And Fundamental Physics; Retroreflectors Left By 3 Apollo And 2 Russia Luna Landings Still Returning Science; Apollo Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment Reports The 384,402-km Earth-Moon Distance Increasing By 3.82 cm/yr, An Anomalously High Figure That May Indicate The Speed Of Light Changing
USA National Space Council Chaired By Vice President Mike Pence Meets In Huntsville, Alabama 26 March; Pence And Former Astronauts Pushing For Early Human Lunar Landing, Perhaps By 2024; University Of Colorado Astrophysicist Jack Burns, Who Will Address NSC, Is Contracted To Develop Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder Smallsat For Lunar Farside, With Ultimate Goal Of Placing Array Of Telescopes On Moon; Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer With Three 5-meter Antennae Will Begin Operating On Lunar Farside When Chang’e-4 Finishes Primary Mission
