NASA's Artemis moon astronauts may wear electric field spacesuits to fight pesky lunar dust

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NASA's Artemis moon astronauts may wear electric field spacesuits to fight pesky lunar dust
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Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.

A new kind of moon spacesuit fabric could"repel lunar dust on demand" for astronaut missions, says the team behind the design.. The material will be built to use electrostatic forces that can keep corrosive moon dust away, thereby preventing the sharp particles from damaging spacesuits.

And the need is urgent: NASA plans to land astronauts on the surface of the moon once again in 2025 or 2026 with its's lander and spacesuit development. "When activated, it generates an electric field that repels lunar dust, preventing the dust from adhering," Arif Rahman, an HPU assistant engineering professor who led the grant proposal,Rahman aims to build a prototype using the funding he received from NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project .

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