PTS 255 What is the Moonlight Programme?

🔆What is the Moonlight Programme?

✅Recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) at the International Astronautical Congress, launched its Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services (LCNS) programme.

✅The programme will have a constellation of about five lunar satellites (one for high data rate communications and four for navigation) that will allow accurate autonomous landings, high-speed communication, and surface mobility. 

✅It is Europe’s first-ever dedicated satellite constellation for telecommunication and navigation services for the Moon.

✅These satellites will reportedly enable data transfer over 2,50,000 miles or 4,00,000 kilometres between the Earth and the Moon. 

✅The prime focus of the Moonlight programme will be to offer coverage at the Moon’s South Pole.

✅The South Pole of the moon is a key area for many missions owing to lighting conditions and the potential presence of water ice within craters that perpetually remain in the shadows. 

✅As part of the programme, the first step will be the launch of Lunar Pathfinder, a communications relay satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology LTD, in 2026. 

✅The initial services of the programme will reportedly begin by the end of 2028, and the system is said to be fully operational by 2030. 

✅The ESA is working with NASA and the Japanese space Agency JAXA on LunaNet, which is essentially a framework to standardise communication and navigation for the Moon.

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