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Artemis
/ ˈɑːtɪmɪs /
noun
- Greek myth the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon: the twin sister of Apollo Roman counterpartDiana Also calledCynthia
Example Sentences
SpaceX has a $4-billion contract to develop a “lunar lander” version of the Starship spacecraft that can return astronauts on the moon as part of its Artemis III mission scheduled for September 2026.
Nasa also wants to use Starship as part of its Artemis programme, which aims to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon.
During the Artemis I mission in late 2022, the lunar mission elbowed out all other scientific uses of the network, costing more than $21 million in data transmission from the James Webb Space Telescope alone.
The company also has suffered cost overruns in building the Habitation and Logistics Outpost to house astronauts returning to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
The so-called Artemis Accords state that extracting and using resources on the Moon should be done in a way complies with the Treaty for Outer Space, although it says some new rules might be needed.
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