{"id":150206,"date":"2025-12-08T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//?p=150206"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:46:29","slug":"ucf-to-play-key-role-in-nasas-artemis-iv-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//ucf-to-play-key-role-in-nasas-artemis-iv-mission/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206//","title":{"rendered":"UCF to Play Key Role in NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u2019s Artemis IV Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF will play a key role in a newly announced NASA Artemis IV mission partnership that aims to, for the first time, directly test and calibrate a groundbreaking new theory developed by UCF Director of the Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education and planetary scientist Phil Metzger /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u201900MS /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u201905PhD on how rocket exhaust lifts and accelerates lunar dust./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/n

UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u2019s expertise will help drive the success of DUSTER, a payload designed specifically to capture and measure dust behavior during spacecraft and human operations on the moon. Lunar Outpost/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u2019s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover will support NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u2019s DUSTER (Dust and plaSma environmenT survEyoR) investigation, selected for development through the Artemis IV Deployed Instruments program. The instruments will be built at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/n

DUSTER represents the best opportunity to date to evaluate the theory on the physics of dust erosion, with implications for the activities being planned on the moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/u2019s surface. The Artemis IV mission is due to launch in 2028./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/150206/n