Oceans and Plate Tectonics on Early Moon? Danish Instrument for Moon Mission will Help Answer this Question.

Recipient
Morten Bo Madsen
University of Copenhagen
Project number:
00077560
Grant amount
2.489.485 DKK
Year
2025

Project description

The main project – of which this proposed project is a minor Danish/European Union contribution – is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program so the entire project is an international collaboration. The proposer of this project has been invited to contribute a small key instrument to the Lunar-Vulkan Imager and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) suite of instruments. The mission is scheduled to fly as Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 3. The project will cover the manufacture and necessary purchase of parts for Engineering units, a Flight unit and a Flight spare, the assembly of these in clean rooms, tests in Danish industry facilities and delivery of a small Danish designed key instrument this NASA-mission.