NASA’s HERMES project received a crucial mission review on 27 January.
Highlights:
The HERMES mission will consist of a four-instrument suite installed outside NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway.
The study, dubbed Key Decision Point C, assessed the mission’s preliminary design and program plan in order to meet the mission’s planned launch readiness date of November 2024.
Following the successful evaluation, the project will proceed to Phase C, which will comprise the HERMES mission’s final design.
The HERMES project will be crucial to the Artemis mission and NASA’s ambitions of establishing a permanent presence on the Moon.
“HERMES” is the acronym for “Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite.”
It will be installed outside the NASA Gateway outpost’s “Habitation and Outpost module.”