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Israel will bring oxygen to the moon, NASA will bring Wifi | Israel today

2021-10-20T08:29:58.713Z


Israeli-German development will make it possible to produce oxygen on the moon while using its soil • NASA examines how it can lay Internet infrastructure for its future guests


An Israeli-German agreement to conduct an oxygen production experiment on lunar soil was signed in Germany between OHB and the Israeli company Helios, which operates with the support of the Israeli Space Agency.

Helios is developing technology for the production of oxygen and metal from lunar dance and other planets to overcome one of the significant challenges in having future extraterrestrial colonies.

Target: Moon, Photo: AFP

OHB's spacecraft is being built together with Israel Aerospace Industries on the basis of experience gained in the Genesis project and is planned to carry out a series of experiments and fly unique cargo to the moon for the European Space Agency, companies in Europe and around the world.

"Oxygen is one of the most significant and heavy components in spaceflight, over 60% of the weight of rockets at launch," says Jonathan Geifman, CEO of Helios.

Nearly half of the ground mass on the moon is made of oxygen that can be extracted in place without the need to fly it from Earth and thus significantly reduce future flying costs and reduce the dependence on the delivery of raw materials from Earth.

Success in producing oxygen on the moon is the key to human evolution outside of Earth and a dramatic reduction in space exploration costs. "

Director of the Israel Space Agency: Brigadier General Uri Oron, Photography: PR

"Establishing a permanent base on the moon requires broad international cooperation," says Brigadier General (Res.) Uri Oron, director general of the Israel Space Agency. "Helios is an example of a company that will become a major global player in efforts to return to the moon. We welcome the tripartite cooperation between the two companies along with IAI that expresses the strong technological ties between Israel and Germany and the ability of cross-border collaborations to bring about scientific breakthroughs."

Simultaneously and unrelated, NASA recently conducted an in-depth study aimed at examining the deployment of a Wi-Fi network on the moon. Land on the moon in 2024 to communicate with each other.The possibility of communication on the moon is necessary especially if the US plans to build on it a base from which research tools have emerged for various operations as well as to maintain contact with systems moving around the moon.

NASA glider will be able to use the Internet on the moon, Photo: Photo: AFPNASA

The new NASA study was conducted around the home of the agency's Cleveland Research and Innovation Center. It turned out that in the big American city, 30 percent of households could not reliably rely on wireless communications that became necessary during the Corona closures. , Together with the municipal factors, examined how to provide the city around it with a reliable media system while on the way it also examines how such a network structure will help it on the moon as well.

While it is true that there is a difference between an industrialized and bustling city and the moon and the resources are different however the media network is the same network in the end.

NASA's study showed that deploying 20,000 routers on poles or other prominent sources in the city about 90 meters apart actually allows good urban connectivity to be created at a speed of 7.5 megabits per second. Although this is not a speed that allows 4K communication and video, It allows keeping in touch and also good video calls around the city.

The study itself helped consider how to connect all city residents to the wireless network but also taught the space agency how to create connectivity on the moon that will withstand even the harsh conditions that may prevail in it that include dust storms and extreme temperatures.

Source: israelhayom

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