18 New Hampshire Companies Help Power Artemis II Moon Mission

New Hampshire companies helped support NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched a crew of four on a 10-day trip looping around the moon before returning to Earth, according to WMUR's report on Artemis II.

WMUR reported Wednesday that 18 companies in the state are contributing to the Artemis program, including RDF Corp. in Hudson and Haigh-Farr in Bedford.

RDF builds temperature sensors, and hundreds of them are supporting Artemis II.

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"They're designed to monitor the temperatures in critical systems where failure is not an option," Shyang Puri of RDF Corp. said.

Puri also said the company began work on the program in 2011 and built a cryo lab for Artemis.

In Bedford, Haigh-Farr is building and testing communication systems that support "flight termination, GPS metric tracking, telemetry," Norene Farr said.

NASA plans to eventually land people on the moon again by 2028.

Many Granite Staters watched the countdown on Wednesday, and a watch party was underway at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord.

Read the original report from WMUR's Artemis II coverage.