FirstWave to help put first woman on the moon

Australia’s FirstWave Cloud Technology has revealed it will play a role in helping put humans back on the Moon for the first time in 50 years.

The company has secured an extension to its role of providing software to monitor the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Artemis program, first secured by its recently acquired business Opmantek last year.

The Artemis program will seek to land the first woman and the first non-white astronaut on the surface of the Moon as the first step towards a manned mission to Mars. The Australian Space Agency plans to participate in the program as part of its Moon to Mars Initiative.

FirstWave is providing three software modules for the deployment — NMIS, opEvents and opHA — covering diagnostics, network and event management.

FirstWave CEO Danny Maher said the company is proud to be part of the Artemis team.

“It will be a historic moment to see the first woman and the first person of colour put their footprints alongside Neil Armstrong and the other early Moon explorers,” he said. “It is a massive, complex operation, and we are very proud to be providing our software to support it.”

Opmantek was initially selected for the contract in July last year, and was subsequently acquired by FirstWave in January.

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