South Korea’s first moon mission is back to take pictures of the house from its position in low lunar orbit.
Danurialso launched by the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early August next year and arrived in lunar orbit four months later, in mid-December. The South Korean billionaire successfully joins the exclusive club of nations the moon missions, which also included Japan, China and India among others.
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has now released images from the $180 million Danuri, showing the crater and lunar surface in the foreground with distant textures earth after
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The photos were taken on Dec. 24. and 28 Dec. respectively to the Lunar Terrain Imager (LUTI), which was deployed by KARI. Engineers will use images from the camera to help identify sites to launch a South Korean robotic lunar landing mission around 2032.
#달 #다너리 (LUTI) 를 , .📷사진 1)12 24일 달 344km 사진 2)12월 28일 124km 사진 사진한 pic.twitter.com/pBC5Dw5X9MJanuary 3, 2023
The 1,495-pound (678-kilogram) KPLO completed a series of launches in mid- and late December, with the spacecraft entering its planned orbit at an average altitude of 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the lunar surface on Dec. 26. by Kari it is said.
Orbitra is now undergoing commissioning before its official scientific mission, which is expected to come next year.
Five of Danuri’s six missions have been deployed by KARI, but NASA has an instrument on board as well. ShadowCam outlining regions of the lunar poles that hint at water-gel deposits could potentially provide valuable information for NASA’s future missions. Artemis programwhich will land astronauts on the moon in 2025 or 2026.
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