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NASA’s MoonFall mission will send four highly mobile drones to survey the lunar surface around the Moon’s south pole ahead of Artemis crews arriving there.
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Last month NASA chief Jared Issacman ripped off the band aid on the space agency’s back to the Moon agenda, calling for, in part, a speedy series of robotic missions to scout, experiment, and prepare for surface operations ahead of any “rebooting” of lunar landscape by astronauts in 2028.

As part of NASA’s “Ignition” event on March 24, in a near breathless overhaul of NASA’s Artemis program, Isaacman called for clearing away needless obstacles that impede progress, “and unleash the workforce and industrial might of our nation” of returning to the lunar landscape and building a lunar base.

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One aspect of the NASA chief’s Artemis makeover was use of hopper drones under what’s called MoonFall.

For more details, go to my new Space.com story — NASA wants to use a fleet of MoonFall drones to scout the lunar south pole: ‘We believe we can do it’” – at:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/nasa-wants-to-use-a-fleet-of-moonfall-drones-to-scout-the-lunar-south-pole-we-believe-we-can-do-it