A new press release from the European Space Agency (ESA) indicates that the 8th continent will be located on … the Moon, with mega-cities and a new constellation of satellites.
According to the Daily Mail, ESA has just unveiled an ambitious plan called “Moonlight” to build a network of telecommunications and satellite navigation satellites in lunar orbit. This network will facilitate the construction of modern cities on the Moon, with complete equipment as on Earth.
“We are entering a new phase – the systematic discovery of our ‘8th continent’, the Moon,” said scientist David Parker, representative of ESA, BBC.
According to Parker, the Moon is a repository of 4.5 billion years of solar system history, with many secrets to uncover. ESA also revealed that Moonlight would benefit from the cooperation of many companies in Europe and Canada.
An Earth-like navigation and telecommunications system would be great for many global aerospace agencies to carry out their own missions, while still allowing easy maneuvering of equipment on the Moon from Earth, reducing the complexity of designing these instruments. , thus reducing the cost of lunar missions.
The Moonlight Plan has received great international support, as many countries have ambitions to explore and build bases on Earth’s only natural satellite. NASA could lead the way, with the closest plan being 2024, to bring humans back to the moon. NASA has also been working hard to research many types of housing suitable for the moon base, types of crops, how to use the materials available on the moon for fuel, how to harness clean water …
