NASA’s HERMES mission has passed a critical mission review on January 27, 2022. With the successful review, HERMES now moves into Phase C, which includes the final design of the mission.
About HERMS Mission
- HERMES is short for Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite.
- HERMES is a four-instrument suite to be mounted outside NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway.
- HERMES will be a critical part of the Artemis mission and NASA’s goals to create a permanent presence on the Moon.
- It will be mounted outside the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module of NASA’s Gateway outpost.
- HERMES will monitor space weather, the fluctuating conditions in space driven by the Sun.
- HERMES is the first space weather monitoring platform on a crewed spacecraft to venture outside Earth’s protective magnetic field.
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