New Mexican space module “EMIDSS-6” to be tested in NASA mission / @SICT_mx >>>

#SICT.- The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), through the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), reports that the Mexican space module EMIDSS-6 (“Experimental Module for Iterative Design for Satellite Subsystems”) will be tested in a mission of the U.S. space agency (NASA) this December.

EMIDSS-6 will contribute to the study of climate change, in order to deepen our knowledge of global warming and increase our understanding of its connection with the increase in frequency and intensity of hydro-meteorological phenomena such as hurricanes, for which it is necessary to reinforce the construction of our capabilities in the region.

To this end, the AEM is developing in parallel the proof-of-concept device called “AEM-OPTIC-1”, for data acquisition and satellite images of the stratospheric environment for EMIDSS-6, to support experiments to identify pollutants in the atmosphere such as micro plastics, including environmental sensors for climatological characterization.

The AEM explained that the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), coordinator of the project, was invited by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for this test, with which Mexico will participate in a suborbital mission from Antarctica to the stratosphere for the first time in history.

NASA will subject EMIDSS-6 to strict technical and electromagnetic compatibility evaluations so that, by the end of the year, the space instrument will be launched from Antarctica to begin recording environmental variables by means of sensors to measure humidity, temperature and ultraviolet radiation.

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