NASA plans to hand over humans to the surface of the moon with the missions of Artemis. In advance of this mission, the space agency works on solutions to various problems that arose during Apollo missions in the past. One of the biggest challenges of some of these Apollo missions takes care of dust on the surface of the moon. NASA notes that the dust of the moon is nothing like the type of dust that collects on shelves in houses around the world.
Moondust is everywhere and it’s very abrasive with the ability to hang on everything. During the Apollo era, NASA designed a special vacuum cleaner to clean the moon dust of SpaceSits worn by astronauts. The problem was that the dust of the moon was so difficult to handle that he broke the vacuum cleaner. Not only is dusting is a danger for equipment on the moon, it is also a danger for astronauts.
The first NASA step tries to accomplish is to understand how much the moon dust is in the local environment at a given moment and its efforts to do that pay for life on earth. NASA has found during the Apollo period that astronauts were extremely sensitive to lunar dust breathing. NASA says that filtration systems can remove a large portion of the tiny lunar dust particles, but an air sensor is needed to show that the attenuation controls in place work.
A new air quality sensor was at the NASA Space Technologies Center for the Exploration Partnerships Program, called NextStep. One of the specific detailed needs for this program was a way to measure lunar dust in surface habitats and orbit platforms. A Denver, Colorado company named Lunar Outpost Inc. has developed a Canary Air Quality Sensor.
The Canary Space has been integrated into the environmental control system and offers distinct benefits compared to traditionally available equipment. The Canary Space has been reclarged as canary-s and fulfills the need for wireless air quality and low cost weather monitoring. The sensors can measure various pollutants, including particles, carbon monoxide, methane, sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds, among others. It can constantly take measurements and send the message to a secure cloud every minute, which is routed to the web-based web-based dashboard or the database of a customer for review and analysis. The sensor is also highly customizable, which allows it to modify specific uses
