Finnish Lunar Mission Instruments

The #Artemis2 spaceflight is on its way to the Moon! Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will become the first humans to visit the Moon since 1972 – and are already the first people since the Apollo 17 mission to leave near-Earth orbit. The moon's flyby will take place on Monday and the four will return to their home planet a week later on Saturday. Have a good trip and return!

In the future, the Moon will play a major role in the space economy, but during the SpacEconomy project, the only ways in which Finland and Finnish actors will be involved in lunar missions will certainly be through subcontracting, in addition to research. That is, the delivery of research equipment or other systems.

I already have experience of this! ESA's SMART-1 probe, which flew to the Moon's orbit in 2003-2006 and studied the Moon from there, had two Finnish instruments: the Finnish Meteorological Institute's SPEDE (right), which studied the electrical charge, and the XMS X-ray monitor (left), manufactured by the University of Helsinki. XSM's tradition is now continued by the #Isaware company.