A team of international scientists has taken a significant step towards making lunar exploration safer, proposing a distress monitoring and rescue system designed for the moon's unique and challenging environment.
As NASA's Artemis program aims to establish a long-term human presence on the moon, astronauts will be exposed to high-risk situations in remote areas like the lunar south pole.
A project led by the University of South Australia (UniSA), addresses the critical need for an emergency system capable of providing safety alerts, incident reporting, and location tracking of astronauts in distress.
Researchers from Adelaide and the US are designing a satellite constellation that prioritizes communication and geolocation on the moon's surface. Using this system, astronauts will be able to send distress signals to a network of satellites that will relay the information back to Earth or other lunar bases.
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