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Successful Demonstration of an Electrostatic Actuated Microshutter System for Space Telescope Flight Missions

After developing magnetically actuated microshutter array sub-systems as a field object selector for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) focused on the development of electrostatically actuated microshutter arrays – Next Generation Microshutter Arrays (NGMSA). The demonstration described in this late news is for the first NGMSA array that performed shutter operations for telescope imaging and spectroscopy in space. The carrier telescope, the Next-Generation Far-UV Off Roland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (NG-FORTIS), has been designed and produced by Prof. Stephan McCandliss and his team at Johns Hopkins University. NG-FORTIS was launched into space successfully.

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Artemis Internal Science Team: Mission Planning Update

As eloquently outlined in the Artemis III Science Definition Team (A3SDT) Report, the definitive statement of science priorities for the first crewed landing of the Artemis program, the return of astronauts to the surface of the Moon is expected to yield paradigm-shifting scientific advances across a wide array of scientific disciplines while facilitating the creation of a thriving cislunar economy. To help establish a cohesive management for the Artemis campaign, the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) have established an Artemis Internal Science Team to complement future competed surface geology and payload science teams while executing critical programmatic functions at the point of hardware element interface decisions. Here, we describe aspects of Artemis III mission planning, specifically the current progress towards selection of candidate exploration regions for the Artemis III mission.

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