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NASA proves its electric moon dust shield works on the lunar surface

The shielding technology was tested in vacuum chambers, where it was used to remove lunar dust samples brought home by NASA's Apollo missions. The first time EDS was tested in space was on the International Space Station, during the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE)-11 mission in 2019.

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NASA's Electrodynamic Moon Dust Shield Proves Successful on Lunar Surface

Along with Artemis, the agency has been hard at work on a fairly mundane aspect of lunar travel: dealing with moon dust.

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NASA's dust shield successfully repels lunar regolith on moon

NASA's Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the moon during Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1,

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NASA uses force field on Moon to sweep away deadly dust

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The ...

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NASA’s new dust repelling shield seems to work well

The hazards facing lunar astronauts are many. There’s the radiation, the temperature extremes, the psychological challenges ...

NASA shakes off annoying moon dust with electric current

Moon dust is very clingy and damages hardware and astronauts. NASA has tested a system on the Blue Ghost lander that removes ...

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Watch: Firefly Aerospace’s historic landing of Blue Ghost on the moon

Among the NASA payloads are some that look to get more information on lunar dust, including the Electrodynamic Dust Shield developed by a team at Kennedy Space Center.

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