Nasa will build a railway system on the moon what is Project Float know

Ever since the US space agency NASA has planned to land humans on the moon again, the whole world is watching it. NASA’s Artemis mission intends to make this possible. This time NASA wants its scientists to build a base on the moon and stay there for a long time. For this, many preparations and projects are underway. Now NASA has announced a plan to build a robot train that will fly on the surface of the moon. blog post It describes a project of the US space agency called “Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT)”.

The aim of this project is to provide a robotic transport system to the astronauts reaching the moon. In a statement, NASA said that the transport system on the moon will be very important for operating a permanent moon base in the 2030s.

According to NDTV report, Ethan Schaler, robotics expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that we want to build the first railway system on the moon, which will offer reliable, autonomous and durable payload transportation on the moon. He said that a long-lasting robotic transport system will be needed to operate a sustainable moon base in the 2030s.

NASA’s initial design shows that the FLOAT system will depend only on machines. Magnetic robots will reach the moon and vehicles will be fitted in them. Those vehicles will run at a speed of about 1.61 kilometers per hour. It is estimated that the vehicles running on the moon will deliver 100 tons of material to the moon base daily.

The main objective of the project is to provide transportation services to areas where astronauts will be active. The FLOAT system will be completely autonomous. It will work in the dusty and difficult environment of the moon. As needed, NASA will reconfigure this system. The special thing is that the FLOAT system is being prepared at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Currently, different parts of the system are being tested in California.