One of the payloads that was meant to fly on Artemis-1 will be hitching a ride with my launch in a few days: https://spacenews.com/japanese-lunar-lander-with-nasa-ridesh...

We will get it to the Moon a bit slower than Artemis, but it will get there.

I love the almost casual awesomeness of people on hn. Thank you all in general and cuSetanta right now

I am continuously amazed by the work of the people on this website. Especially as a hands-on type person who does horrendously ugly coding to get things done.

I mostly like how many different projects and tools I learn from the people here.

>> my launch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispace_(Japanese_company)

> Hakuto-R Mission 1 will include a lunar lander that is now scheduled for launch aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle in November 2022

ALSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Lunar_Mission is interesting to me

Good luck with your launch and the mission. Is there a way for us to follow it?

ispace as a company is not particularly good at publicising their work, which could be a cultural thing, as they are the only Japanese company I have worked for.

But their LinkedIn will have updates as we apprach the launch (hopefully byt the end of this month): https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispace-inc

I will also be posting updates as things are happening on my LinkedIn, which is in my profile.

Also, if you want to read more, these two blogs have a lot of cool information about our mission and the others involved in this "new space race":

https://lunarbusinessreview.substack.com/

https://blog.jatan.space/

Thank you! And best of luck with the mission.

Hey, that's awesome! Do you know if there are plans to release the data publicly (or where I will find it when it does?)

(not the op, but I do have some insight here)

At a minimum, CuSP data will be available via PySPEDAS:

https://github.com/spedas/pyspedas

If you're interested in accessing science data from spacecraft, you should check it out!

I haven't heard much discussion about any data being released from us or our payloads. Since it is a very commercialised mission I wouldn't expect too much, but if there is anything I will definitely share it here (if thats allowed).

> The European Space Agency describes the ArgoMoon CubeSat as "a space version of the Lakitu the cloud camera turtle from Mario."

Finally, third person view for spacecraft.

A cubesat from my high school is launching on Nov 21st, 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center on SpX-26 ISS resupply. I worked on it five years ago so it's really cool to see this stuff finally coming to fruition.

Thats awesome, I am looking forward to watching the launch from the facility here in the Cape. I will cheer it on for you!

I love this. It's great PR and it works on me. $10B's to basically replay moon missions from 50 years ago. Needs to be done to maintain spacefaring competency but, done that.

But use like 0.01% of the payload hauling capacity if this thing to take up a bunch of cute cube sats just makes it all so much more interesting and fun to follow. I especially love the one that intends to land.

"mannequins" are really three human-shaped sensor packages

This is reported in the article:

"Moonikin Campos' job will be to pretend to be an astronaut, and sensors inside of him will measure radiation, acceleration and vibration to help NASA prepare to launch human astronauts in the next Artemis mission."

"Accompanying Moonikin Campos are two other female-bodied mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) along with the Israel Space Agency. These are more accurately called “anthropomorphic phantoms,” and their job is to provide a detailed recording of the radiation environment inside the capsule over the course of the mission. The phantoms are female because women have more radiation-sensitive tissue than men. Both Helga and Zohar have over 6,000 tiny radiation detectors placed throughout their artificial bodies, but Zohar will be wearing an AstroRad radiation protection vest to see how effective it is."

I thought they were referring to Snoopy and Shawn the Sheep plushies, both of which were to be on Artemis-1 as zero G indicators.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/snoopy-artemis.htm

What are the order of magnitude of price launch for a cubesat nowadays?Are there already commercial prices for moon cubesats?

What's the minimal equipment required (assuming just a simple communication sat)? Does it require attitude and vector control?

Were these amateur/hobbyist cubesats or were they all proposed/sourced by NASA?

I believe they were generally from colleges and schools and received development assistance from NASA. Each cubesat is a certain size, in the case of Artemis 1, they are "6U" or 6-units large. This seems to be a standard designation. The adapter ring that launches the cubesats is also interesting. Little chutes.

Those are big cubesats! 3U used to be the normal size for a serious mission (eg I know of a space telescope that fit in 3U), while 1U is a few sensors or a toy project. I'm glad NASA is taking them up.

Nothing like some good news to start the day. Just for some fiction that I'm writing, how many people do you bet are living/working on the Moon by 2050?

Is there a list somewhere of each CubeSat and their payloads?

Yes, in the section “Artemis Science Payloads” - it has all 10, photos, mission objectives, and descriptions.

It's pronounced CubeStat /s

* CubeSats

The article headline as it reads now is:

> Here’s All the Science Hitching a Ride on Artemis-1 A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae, and more on a trip to the Moon and back

The article itself correctly calls them CubeSats.

My brain did a segfault numerous times.

Note that "CubeStat" is likely a typo for "CubeSat", even though it does appear in the headline of the real article. "CubeStat" doesn't appear in the body of the article, and it is not a familiar term to me (as CubeSat is).