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Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research: Comprehensive Report to The NASA Lunar Science Institute. March 1, 2012
The Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR) is a team of researchers and students at leading universities, NASA centers, and federal research laboratories undertaking investigations aimed at using the Moon as a platform for space science. LUNAR research includes Lunar Interior Physics & Gravitation using Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), Low Frequency Cosmology and Astrophysics (LFCA), Planetary Science and the Lunar Ionosphere, Radio Heliophysics, and Exploration Science. The LUNAR team is exploring technologies that are likely to have a dual purpose, serving both exploration and science. There is a certain degree of commonality in much of LUNAR’s research. Specifically, the technology development for a lunar radio telescope involves elements from LFCA, Heliophysics, Exploration Science, and Planetary Science; similarly the drilling technology developed for LLR applies broadly to both Exploration and Lunar Science
The Moon Beyond 2002, Next Steps in Lunar Science and Exploration : September 12-14, 2002, Taos, New Mexico
The purpose of this meeting is to capitalize on the recent advances by focusing the planetary science community on the following: (1) What are the key questions that should now be addressed to advance lunar science and exploration? and (2) What actions should the planetary science community carry out to best answer these questions?The purpose of this meeting is to capitalize on the recent advances by focusing the planetary science community on the following: (1) What are the key questions that should now be addressed to advance lunar science and exploration? and (2) What actions should the planetary science community carry out to best answer these questions?Los Alamos National Laboratory ... [and others]meeting organizer, David J. Lawrence ; scientific organizing committee, Mike Duke ... [and others]PARTIAL CONTENTS: The Moon: Keystone to Understanding Planetary Geological Processes and History / James W. Head--Lunar Solar Power System and Lunar Exploration / D.R. Criswell--Human Exploration of the Moon / Michael B. Duke--Volatiles at the Poles of the Moon / B.J. Butler--Sensitivity of Lunar Resource Economic Model to Lunar Ice Concentration / Brad Blair and Javier Diaz--Origin of Nanophase Fe in Agglutinates: A Radical New Concept / Lawrence A. Taylor
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group : November 1-3, 2016, Columbia, Maryland
The meeting goals are three-fold: 1. Integrate the perspectives and interests of the different stakeholders (science, engineering, government, and private sector) to explore common goals of lunar exploration. 2. Use the results of recent and ongoing missions to examine how science enables exploration and exploration enables science. 3. Provide a forum for community updates and input into the issues that affect lunar science and exploration.NASA Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG)
Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)Organizing Committee, Clive Neal, Convener, University of Notre Dame, Stephen Mackwell, Convener,
Universities Space Research Associatio
Sixteenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Press abstracts
A broad range of topics concerned with lunar and planetary science are discussed. Topics among those included are, the sun, the planets, comets, meteorities, asteroids, satellites, space exploration, and the significance of these to Earth
A Notional Example of Understanding Human Exploration Traverses on the Lunar Surface
Mr. Gruener received an M.S. in physical science, with an emphasis in planetary geology, from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 1994. He then began working with NASA JSC.s Solar System Exploration Division on the development of prototype planetary science instruments, the development of a mineral-based substrate for nutrient delivery to plant growth systems in bio-regenerative life support systems, and in support of the Mars Exploration Rover missions in rock and mineral identification. In 2004, Mr. Gruener again participated in a renewed effort to plan and design missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. He participated in many exploration planning activities, including NASA.s Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS), Global Exploration Strategy Workshop, Lunar Architecture Team 1 and 2, Constellation Lunar Architecture Team, the Global Point of Departure Lunar Exploration Team, and the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Workshop on Science Associated with the Lunar Exploration Architecture. Mr. Gruener has also been an active member of the science team supporting NASA.s Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS)
Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration with the European Lunar Lander
This paper discusses the scientific objectives for the ESA Lunar Lander
Mission, which emphasise human exploration preparatory science and introduces
the model scientific payload considered as part of the on-going mission
studies, in advance of a formal instrument selection.Comment: Accepted for Publication in Planetary and Space Science 51 pages, 8
figures, 1 tabl
Application of Solar-Electric Propulsion to Robotic and Human Missions in Near-Earth Space
Interest in applications of solar electric propulsion (SEP) is increasing. Application of SEP technology is favored when: (1) the mission is compatible with low-thrust propulsion, (2) the mission needs high total delta V such that chemical propulsion is disadvantaged; and (3) performance enhancement is needed. If all such opportunities for future missions are considered, many uses of SEP are likely. Representative missions are surveyed and several SEP applications selected for analysis, including orbit raising, lunar science, lunar exploration, lunar exploitation, planetary science, and planetary exploration. These missions span SEP power range from 10s of kWe to several MWe. Modes of use and benefits are described, and potential SEP evolution is discussed
Building on the Cornerstone: Destinations for Nearside Sample Return
Discoveries from LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) have transformed our knowledge of the Moon, but LRO's instruments were originally designed to collect the measurements required to enable future lunar surface exploration. Compelling science questions and critical resources make the Moon a key destination for future human and robotic exploration. Lunar surface exploration, including rovers and other landed missions, must be part of a balanced planetary science and exploration portfolio. Among the highest planetary exploration priorities is the collection of new samples and their return to Earth for more comprehensive analysis than can be done in-situ. The Moon is the closest and most accessible location to address key science questions through targeted sample return. The Moon is the only other planet from which we have contextualized samples, yet critical issues need to be addressed: we lack important details of the Moon's early and recent geologic history, the full compositional and age ranges of its crust, and its bulk composition
The Open Gateway: Lunar Exploration in 2050
The Moon, with its fundamental science questions and abundant, potentially useful re-sources, is the most viable destination for near-term future human and robotic exploration. Given what we have learned since Apollo, the lunar frontier now presents an entirely new paradigm for planetary exploration. The Lunar Exploration Roadmap [1], which was jointly developed by engineers, planetary scientists, commercial entities, and policymakers, is the cohesive strategic plan for using the Moon and its resources to enable the exploration of all other destinations within the Solar system by leveraging incremental, affordable investments in cislunar infrastructure. Here, we summarize the Lunar Exploration Roadmap, and describe the immense benefits that will arise from its successful implementation
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