In just 24 hours, South Korea will launch his first lunar probe in space. The mission cost approximately US$180 million and is scheduled to take place at 20:08 (Brazil time) on August 4 from Space Force Station Platform 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
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It is planned that this probe will be at an altitude of 100 kilometers above the lunar surface for about a year. Its big difference, according to science, is Wide angle field metric camera (PolCam), which captures the polarization of sunlight. Thus, it will be possible to learn more details of almost the entire surface of the moon.
Together with the orbiter Korean Lunar Orbiter Pathfinder (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter or KPLO)also known as Danuri, six more instruments will be sent into orbit of our natural satellite. One of them was even developed in the USA: shadow camera. This equipment is, in fact, a new version Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and will be responsible for photographing shadowy regions of the Moon in high resolution. Among its goals is the search for water and ice on the “dark side of the moon.”
South Korea, of course, wants to expand its path in the study of the moon and get as much information as possible about our natural satellite. According to Kim Eunhyuk, a researcher at the South Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Kari), “The main idea of this mission is to develop and demonstrate technologies. In addition, with the help of scientific instruments, we hope to obtain useful data from the lunar surface.”
KPL will be sent to the moon on a rocket Falcon 9gives SpaceX. If the plan succeeds and the launch takes place later this week, the South Korean probe and other equipment should reach the moon’s orbit on the same day. December 16. This mission was launched in 2016 and its original launch date was scheduled for 2020.
Via: Olhar Digital, Folha de São Paulo
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