Moon shot

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer wearing a spacesuit holds a prototype of the the camera that will make it to the Moon during a rehearsal in a realistic Moon setting at the LUNA facilityin Germany

ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) led the simulated moonwalk. The space agencies will use the images as reference files for future lunar surface operations.

The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is preparing the ground for videos coming from future Artemis missions on the lunar surface. The CCSDS addresses the obstacles of receiving high quality images through the limited bandwidth available from the Moon.