한국의 보도가 말하는 「르나인파크타(Lunar Impactor, 초소형 위성 기반의 국제월 탐사 연구)」프로젝트의 정체는 이것일까라고 생각한다.
신경이 쓰였으므로 조사해 보면, NASA의 HP로 이런 건을 찾아냈다.
NASA Successfully Launches Lunar Impactor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon"s south pole. The satellite lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 5:32 p.m. EDT, with a companion mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.
LRO safely separated from LCROSS 45 minutes later. LCROSS then was powered-up, and the mission operations team at NASA"s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., performed system checks that confirmed the spacecraft is fully functional.
LCROSS and its attached Centaur upper stage rocket separately will collide with the moon at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2009, creating a pair of debris plumes that will be analyzed for the presence of water ice or water vapor, hydrocarbons and hydrated materials. The spacecraft and Centaur are tentatively targeted to impact the moon"s south pole near the Cabeus region. The exact target crater will be identified 30 days before impact, after considering information collected by LRO, other spacecraft orbiting the moon, and observatories on Earth.
"LCROSS has been the little mission that could," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for NASA"s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We stand poised for an amazing mission and possible answers to some very intriguing questions about the moon."
The 1,290-pound LCROSS and 5,216-pound Centaur upper stage will perform a swing-by maneuver of the moon around 6 a.m. on June 23 to calibrate the satellite"s science instruments and enter a long, looping polar orbit around Earth and the moon. Each orbit will be roughly perpendicular to the moon"s orbit around Earth and take about 37 days to complete. Before impact, the spacecraft and Centaur will make approximately three orbits.
On the final approach, about 54,000 miles above the surface, LCROSS and the Centaur will separate. LCROSS will spin 180 degrees to turn its science payload toward the moon and fire thrusters to slow down. The spacecraft will observe the flash from the Centaur"s impact and fly through the debris plume. Data will be collected and streamed to LCROSS mission operations for analysis. Four minutes later, LCROSS also will impact, creating a second debris plume.
"This mission is the culmination of a dedicated team that had a great idea," said Daniel Andrews, LCROSS project manager at Ames. "And now we"ll engage people around the world in looking at the moon and thinking about our next steps there."
The LCROSS science team will lead a coordinated observation campaign that includes LRO, the Hubble Space Telescope, observatories on Hawaii"s Mauna Kea and amateur astronomers around the world.
Ames manages LCROSS and also built the instrument payload. Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif., built the spacecraft.
The LCROSS mission is providing updates via @LCROSS_NASA on Twitter. To follow, visit:
요컨데 루나·리코네산스·인공위성(Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter：LRO 달주회 무인 위성)과 함께, 달표면에 충돌시키는 엘 크로스(Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite：LCROSS) 위성을 발사해 LCROSS외를 낙착시키는 모습을 LRO로부터 관측하려는 취지의 것.
이 때에 LCROSS로부터도 낙하중의 정보를 LRO는 계속 수신해 보다 많은 정보를 수집하려는 성격의 것입니다.
2009년 10월 9일, 달표면 충돌 탐사기 LCROSS를 달표면에 낙착.
이 때에, 일본의 가구점의 데이터도 제공하고 있습니다.
창의나, 낙하시에 일어난 달표면 표면의 물질로부터, 달표면에 수분이 운운이라고 하는 기사를 조금 전에 읽은 것 같은 생각이 드네요.
보도에 말하는 「한국이 제작한 인공위성」이란 달표면 충돌 탐사기 LCROSS의 일을 가리키는 것은 아닐까 생각한다.
즉, 미국이 제2의 「Lunar Impactor」를 계획하고 있어, 그 달표면 충돌 탐사기 LCROSS의 제작을 한국이 하청받을 방향으로 조정을 하고 있다, 라고 하는 취지의 기사는 아닐까 추측된다.
이것이라면, 「인공위성」이 「달표면에 도달한다」 것도 납득이 가는 곳이고, 「달표면 탐사」라고 하는 것도 납득이 간다.
그러나···
이것,한국은 미국과 구소련에 이어 세계 3번째의 달탐사국이 된다！
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