The College of Portsmouth has acquired a funding increase from the UK Area Company, after the success of a pilot venture to develop an area mission that can place a small satellite tv for pc in orbit across the Moon.
The pilot research targeted on CosmoCube, a radio-cosmology mission that can discover the so-called Darkish Ages of the Universe from a Moon-orbiting satellite tv for pc.
It was the primary research within the College’s Area Mission Incubator, which noticed science and engineering specialists working collectively in actual time to quickly develop a design for the house mission.
Professor David Bacon, Director of the College of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), stated: “The goal of the CosmoCube venture is to ship a CubeSat to a extremely quiet spot in house, the place the Moon is obstructing radio frequency noise from Earth. With out the noise from Earth drowning out faint radio waves we are attempting to measure from the distant Universe, we are able to hopefully be taught rather a lot concerning the historical cosmos.”
Dr Lucinda King, Area Initiatives Supervisor on the ICG, added: “It is utilizing the quietest location within the Photo voltaic System out there to us to have a sneak peek into the Universe’s previous.
“And the good thing about CubeSats is that they’re small and have the potential to ‘piggyback’ on different mission launches, so hopefully there are going to be numerous possibilities to ship these missions up quickly.”
