The agency will share its findings with NASA in order to help with the Artemis program, which aims to develop a permanent lunar colony.
Nayak also revealed that DARPA is working alongside NASA and that any findings will be shared with the space agency and will be complementary to its own architecture studies.
"We set out to talk with NASA, figure out what they're doing, figure out what their roadmap is, and then see if there are other complementary investments that we can make to significantly advance the state of the art that are sort of in line with your typical DARPA mission,” Nayak told SpaceNews.One of the goals for DARPA with Luna-10 is also to develop technology that could be re-purposed for defense capabilities on Earth.
For example, the study could develop thermal management technologies for power systems on the Moon. These, in turn, could be used on Earth for other means, such as communications and navigation services, Nayak explained. In its announcement, DARPA stated that the new study is firmly "grounded" in Article 4 of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which states that theDARPA also announced it aims to select the organizations that will work on Luna-10 at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium in Pittsburgh, on October 10-11. The final report for Luna-10 is currently scheduled for June 2024.
NASA will be keeping a keen eye on the study as it is working on the technologies that will make a permanent lunar colony possible. Following its
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