{"id":10447,"date":"2024-03-15T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasa-delivers-science-instrument-to-jaxas-martian-moons-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T22:02:58","slug":"nasa-delivers-science-instrument-to-jaxas-martian-moons-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/nasa-delivers-science-instrument-to-jaxas-martian-moons-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Delivers Science Instrument to JAXA\u2019s Martian Moons Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASA Delivers Science Instrument to JAXA\u2019s Martian Moons Mission<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On March 14, NASA delivered its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto JAXA\u2019s MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission spacecraft and final system-level testing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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U.S. and Japanese team members gather around and discuss the gamma-ray spectrometer portion of the MEGANE instrument during its development at Johns Hopkins APL.<\/div>\n
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NASA\u2019s Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma Ray and Neutrons (MEGANE) instrument, developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, will play a major role in the MMX mission, which aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars\u2019 moons Phobos and Deimos and deliver a sample from Phobos to Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scientists suspect the asteroid-sized bodies either are remnants of an ancient collision between Mars and a large impactor or are themselves asteroids captured by Mars\u2019 gravity. By measuring the energies of neutrons and gamma rays emitted from the surface of Phobos, MEGANE will let MMX \u201csee\u201d the elemental composition of the moon\u2019s surface and help peg the likely origin of the moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMEGANE will be a key instrument on MMX, making a big contribution toward the goal of understanding the origin of the Martian moons,\u201d said Thomas Statler, MEGANE program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cNASA is glad to see MEGANE ready for integration, another step in NASA\u2019s continuing collaboration with JAXA on this groundbreaking mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instrument team received the green light last fall to ship MEGANE (pronounced meh-GAH-nay, the Japanese word for \u201ceyeglasses\u201d) after the project\u2019s standing review board evaluated the device\u2019s readiness. That milestone marked the end of a demanding 6-year design and development process, which met NASA\u2019s cost and schedule constraints.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing the pre-ship review and delivering the hardware are significant steps for all those working on MEGANE,\u201d said APL\u2019s David Lawrence, the instrument\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cLike all spaceflight builds, we have had challenges getting to this point, but we are excited to see how MEGANE works with all the other spacecraft components for this exciting MMX mission.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With MEGANE now in Japan, the MMX team will begin integrating the scientific instruments, including MEGANE, with other spacecraft components, before putting the entire system through a series of tests in preparation for launch, which is scheduled for fiscal year 2026, aboard a JAXA H3 rocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me personally, I\u2019m looking forward to all the integration and test operations that are to come,\u201d said Sarah Bucior, a space systems engineer in SES and the MEGANE I&T Lead Engineer. \u201cI love rockets, so I\u2019m really interested to see how they build their spacecraft and then follow it along to launch operations and liftoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

MEGANE was developed under NASA\u2019s Discovery Program, which provides low-cost access to space. The Discovery Program is managed by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The instrument science team includes investigators from APL, LLNL, Marietta College, NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley, and JAXA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To learn more about MEGANE and the MMX mission, visit\u00a0http:\/\/megane.jhuapl.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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