session 8
- Title
Hitchhiking to the Moon
- type
oral
- Description
The next few decades involve a dramatically increased interest in lunar exploration for the purpose of developing a permanent human and robotic presence on the Moon, both for science and space exploration objectives. This renewed interest is broad and international, involving space agencies from the USA, Europe, China, India, Japan, Russia, Germany, UK, and others. Recently, ISRO’s Chandrayaan spacecraft offered its platform as an opportunity to fly international instruments to the Moon; NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft provided an opportunity for a secondary payload to the Moon, in the form of the LCROSS lunar impactor mission. In the future, it is expected that there will be more opportunities for ride-sharing or secondary or tertiary payload opportunities to be flown to the Moon. This session provides a forum for the exchange of ideas for such small payloads to be demonstrated at the Moon, by ‘Hitch-hiking a ride’ to the Moon. Examples of such payloads or missions include: micro-spacecraft orbiters, CubeSats, small probes, penetrators, micro-landers, hard-landers, micro-rovers, secondary payload surface science instruments, distributed network landers, and many more. The focus of this session is on mission concepts, technology readiness and ride-sharing requirements.
- Date
2009-10-16
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Chairman: Dr. Leon Alkalai, Mandala Space Ventures, United States;
Chairman: Prof. Jeng-Shing (Rock) Chern, International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Canada;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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2 | 25' | Mr. John Elliott | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory | United States | |||
3 | A Trade Space Model for Distributed Lunar Surface Robotic Exploration | 25' | Mr. Zachary Bailey | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | ||
6 | 20' | Mr. Kenneth Hurst | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory | United States | |||
7 | Micro Moon Rover based on pico-satellite technology for assistance of lunar missions | 20' | Mr. Rozbeh Alavi | Germany | |||
8 | New Multifunctional Mechanical Unit for Space Robotic application | 20' | Prof. Alberto Rovetta | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |