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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The other main use of the proposed railway would be to transport larger loads of materials and equipment to and from the areas where spacecraft land.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The FLOAT system is already being developed by engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
It is based on magnetic levitation a commonly used technology in high-speed rail development.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
Drawings by NASA suggest the plans call for flat, magnetic panels, called robots, to float, or levitate, over a flat rail line, or track.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The robots have no moving parts and are unpowered. They are pushed along the track by electromagnetic energy.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
NASA said the simple design of the carrier robots should help them last a long time and require little ongoing care.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The system’s tracks can be placed directly on the lunar surface, avoiding the need to build a complex, permanent structure.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
They could also be moved around to change the transportation path.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
A smaller version of the FLOAT system will permit robots to transport loads up to 30 kilograms at speeds of about 0.5 meters per second, the agency said.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
A larger system could also be built, to enable load transports involving up to 100,000 kilograms of regolith.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
Such a system could permit trips of “multiple kilometers per day,” NASA explained.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The agency is currently developing and testing different parts of the FLOAT system.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
FLOAT is one in a series of NASA development projects that recently received additional financial assistance to keep running.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
The projects are part of a NASA program called Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC).
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
Each of the projects received “up to $600,000 to continue working over the next two years” to progress further.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
FLOAT and the other projects already passed NIAC’s first development phase and are entering the second.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
If the efforts continue to show promise, they will be able to enter phase III, which provides additional funding and support from NASA.
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NASA Details Plans for Railway System on the Moon
After that, the projects will be considered for a future space mission. I’m Bryan Lynn.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
The American space agency NASA has completed a new experiment that sent data over 226 million kilometers in space.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
The result marks a major improvement over previous tests that measured data transfers over 31 million kilometers.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
The method is known as Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC).
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
The high-speed transfer technology uses lasers to send large data files over very long distances.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
NASA is looking to the method to improve, or upgrade, existing communication technology.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
Traditionally, NASA has depended on radio communications to send data back and forth through space.
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NASA Extends Laser Communication in Space to 226 Million Kilometers
But this method has a limited bandwidth meaning at a certain point the system can no longer effectively process data.
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