The Artemis 1 mission will launch 10 revolutionary CubeSats into space.
— a thin and light material that uses photons from the sun and their momentum to propel the small craft.
NASA says this will help ascertain the properties of the asteroid like its position in space, shape, and rotation, as well as measuring its surrounding dust and debris field. This information could prove useful for future missions that aim to land on NEAs.The EQUilibriUm Lunar-Earth point 6U Spacecraft is also a cubesat created for Artemis 1 by JAXA with assistance from the University of Tokyo. Its aim is to understand the radiation in the space environment around Earth.
Another Artemis 1 cubesat is also poised to collect information that could potentially protect astronauts from radiation. , in California's Silicon Valley, to better understand the effect of radiation on organisms in space. Two strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae — one of which repairs DNA damage much better than the other — will be triggered to grow once BioSentinel is outside of Earth's magnetosphere, which helps protects us from harsh solar radiation.
The 6U cubesat carries three instruments that can measure this 'space weather' before it reaches Earth striking its magnetosphere and potentially triggering a harmful geomagnetic storm. The cubesat Team Miles has had one of the most interesting journeys to the launchpad of all of Artemis 1's secondary payloads, and its journey after launch should prove just as thrilling.
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