SELENE and the Follow-On Missions with the Lunar Exploration Architecture Study at JAXA
- Paper number
IAC-07-A3.6.A.06
- Author
Dr. Junichiro Kawaguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/ISAS, Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/ISAS, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Naoki Sato, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Kohtaro Matsumoto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IAT/JAXA), Japan
- Year
2007
- Abstract
JAXA started the Lunar Exploation Architecture study for both robotic and human missions to the surface of the Moon based on its long term vision 'JAXA 2025'. The most immediate mission to the Moon was the SELENE spacecraft launched this summer. It is currently under the initial verfication operations pior to the primary scientific mission period starting very shortly. JAXA sees even the human mission to the Moon through international collaboration framework, and will play the key role in it. As the robotic exploration missions, JAXA will have two SELENE-follow-on missions in early and later 2010s. Both aim at not only scientific observation but the technology verification looking at the humans surafce activity in near future. As other space agencies, JAXA intensively looks at the new humans missions era starting around 2020, and will put some autonomous missions that contribute to the international exploration architecture. These studies derived from the Lunar Exploration Architecture study performed at JAXA, and the paper will report the fundamental portion of it.
- Abstract document