Vantage built and delivered the engineering model and flight thermal Multilayer Insulation (MLI) blankets for Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Magnetic Anomaly Particle Spectrometer (MAPS), which is to fly on NASA’s Lunar Vertex lander-rover mission.
MAPS will study the interaction of the solar wind with surface materials on the Moon, aiming to understand the origin of swirling patterns of bright and dark soil that coincide with localized swaths of magnetic fields. The Vantage team built, installed and helped test the engineering and flight MLI blankets that provide passive thermal control to the instrument while in the vacuum of space.
They work by limiting the amount of radiative heat transfer through multiple layers of thin reflectors and spacer materials. Vantage is proud of our thermal engineering team that has built and delivered another high-quality product to support a critical scientific Lunar mission.
Vantage Supports Solar Wind Monitoring