NASA Langley team identifies 25 data gaps as Voyager prepares Griffin-1

Richard Spolzino works at NASA Langley Research Center and within the Moon Base mission architecture and systems interoperability effort. His daily work centers on the data gap, and his team has identified 25 data gaps. Voyager, a lunar lander company formerly Astrobotic, is preparing the upcoming Griffin-1 mission.

Spolzino is based at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. His daily work centers on the data gap, and he operates within the Moon Base mission architecture and systems interoperability effort.

The team has identified 25 data gaps. A data gap is synonymous with a knowledge gap, records what is not known, and is treated as a formal document with a measurable target. Industry and international partners can aim for a specific and measurable data-gap target.

Lunar regolith has geotechnical properties that include weight bearing and shear strength.

Voyager, formerly Astrobotic, is a lunar lander company. It is preparing the Griffin-1 mission, which is upcoming. Spolzino's team did not help Voyager select instruments.

NASA still does not know about the Moon and Mars.

For readers tracking the lunar industry, the facts pair a list of 25 data gaps with Spolzino's work inside the Moon Base mission architecture and systems interoperability effort. They also state that industry and international partners can aim for a specific and measurable data-gap target.

Voyager's status as a lunar lander company preparing the upcoming Griffin-1 mission gives a commercial reference point alongside the data-gap work. The facts also say Spolzino's team did not help Voyager select instruments.

The facts identify lunar regolith geotechnical properties, including weight bearing and shear strength, and state that NASA still does not know about the Moon and Mars.

Voyager is preparing the upcoming Griffin-1 mission.