[ti:Two New Private Spacecraft Launch to the Moon]
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[00:00.04]Two private spacecraft are on their way
[00:03.80]to the moon to carry out separate missions.
[00:08.16]The landers launched January 15
[00:12.24]from the American government's
[00:14.48]Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
[00:17.76]The private company SpaceX
[00:21.32]used its Falcon 9 launch vehicle
[00:24.96]to fly the landers into space.
[00:28.44]The two separated from Falcon 9
[00:32.00]about one hour into the flight.
[00:35.12]Mission leaders said the launch went exactly
[00:39.36]as planned, with no problems reported.
[00:43.12]The trip to the moon will take some time.
[00:47.04]One spacecraft is expected to land
[00:50.32]on the lunar surface in early March,
[00:53.56]while the other should touch down
[00:56.12]in late May or early June.
[00:59.48]In February 2024, the first private spacecraft
[01:05.20]completed the first U.S. moon landing
[01:08.64]in more than 50 years.
[01:11.36]The lander, called Odysseus,
[01:15.00]was developed by the Texas-based company
[01:18.60]Intuitive Machines.
[01:20.88]The spacecraft experienced some technical problems
[01:25.92]but was able to carry out several science experiments
[01:30.32]before powering down permanently on the moon in late March.
[01:36.28]For this current mission, Texas-based
[01:40.08]Firefly Aerospace developed Blue Ghost,
[01:44.60]one of the two landers launched.
[01:48.24]The other, named Resilience,
[01:51.24]belongs to Japanese company ispace.
[01:54.96]Both are designed to collect data and materials
[01:59.64]to support several planned moon missions
[02:03.44]– some including astronauts – in coming years.
[02:08.12]The Blue Ghost lander is targeting a landing site
[02:13.20]near a volcanic structure called Mons Latreille.
[02:17.96]It is a 480-kilometer basin
[02:22.28]that sits in the northeast quarter
[02:24.92]of the near side of the moon.
[02:27.60]The American space agency NASA
[02:31.36]says the 2-meter-tall Blue Ghost
[02:34.84]is carrying 10 NASA science
[02:37.96]and technology instruments.
[02:40.84]They aim to "gather valuable scientific data
[02:45.44]studying Earth's nearest neighbor,"
[02:49.04]the agency said.
[02:51.04]NASA's Artemis program
[02:54.04]aims to send astronauts
[02:56.16]to the moon for the first time
[02:58.60]since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
[03:03.64]The next planned flight in that program
[03:07.76]is Artemis II,
[03:09.48]which is set to launch in April 2026.
[03:14.08]In that mission, four astronauts will
[03:17.84]fly NASA's Orion spacecraft
[03:21.00]more than 400,000 kilometers
[03:24.68]on a trip around the moon.
[03:27.56]Nicola Fox is the associate administrator
[03:31.96]for NASA's Science Mission Directorate
[03:35.64]in Washington D.C.
[03:38.24]She said in a statement the agency's
[03:41.80]cooperation with private companies
[03:45.12]is "a critical part
[03:47.00]of bringing humanity back to the moon."
[03:50.84]Fox added that NASA chose the new experiments
[03:55.72]partly because of information learned
[03:58.80]from NASA's Apollo space program,
[04:02.28]which began in the 1960s.
[04:05.80]She said the current mission seeks to ensure
[04:10.12]"the safety and health
[04:12.12]of our future science instruments, spacecraft,
[04:16.60]and, most importantly,
[04:18.68]our astronauts on the lunar surface."
[04:22.76]Blue Ghost's equipment
[04:24.72]includes a tool to collect dirt
[04:27.68]and another to dig a hole
[04:29.92]for measuring temperatures
[04:31.88]below the lunar surface.
[04:34.44]The spacecraft is also carrying a device
[04:38.20]built to measure light reflections
[04:41.08]to be used with lasers to better measure the distance
[04:45.64]between Earth and the moon.
[04:48.72]In addition, Blue Ghost is carrying instruments
[04:52.56]to examine the structure and density
[04:55.80]of areas beneath the lunar surface.
[04:59.24]Other equipment will seek to capture X-ray images
[05:03.68]of the edge of Earth's magnetic field.
[05:07.20]The ispace lander Resilience is carrying
[05:11.96]an exploring vehicle, called a rover, to the moon.
[05:16.68]The five-kilogram rover is designed
[05:20.32]to collect lunar soil and other materials from the surface.
[05:25.92]Resilience is also carrying equipment and instruments
[05:30.56]to complete several experiments
[05:33.16]for Japanese companies and other organizations.
[05:37.84]One of the experiments
[05:40.12]will test an electrolysis device
[05:43.04]designed to separate water
[05:45.52]into hydrogen and oxygen.
[05:48.28]Such a device could help future astronauts
[05:52.20]better use water resources on the moon
[05:55.44]and produce rocket fuel.
[05:58.40]Other experiments set for the Resilience mission
[06:02.56]include food production tests
[06:05.52]and the deployment
[06:07.16]of a "deep space radiation probe."
[06:10.36]The instrument is designed
[06:13.28]to collect detailed measurements
[06:15.84]of ionizing radiation in space.
[06:20.24]NASA has said it is paying $101 million
[06:25.40]to Firefly for the mission
[06:28.24]and another $44 million for the experiments.
[06:33.00]Officials from ispace did not report
[06:36.68]how much its mission would cost.
[06:39.40]It is the second moon mission for ispace.
[06:43.28]During the last one,
[06:45.24]Japan's space agency JAXA
[06:48.40]successfully launched its SLIM spacecraft
[06:52.52]to the moon in January 2024.
[06:56.24]But the lander touched down imperfectly,
[07:00.12]causing some communication and power problems.
[07:04.56]However, Japanese space officials
[07:08.00]reported they had stayed in communication
[07:11.64]with SLIM through late April.
[07:14.96]During this time, they said the spacecraft
[07:18.52]was able to collect valuable data
[07:21.28]about the landing and surrounding area.
[07:25.84]I'm Bryan Lynn. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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