From Robotic Precursors to Lunar Colonies: ILEWG Roadmap ILEWG Roadmap
- Paper number
IAC-08.A5.1.7
- Author
Prof. Bernard Foing, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands
- Year
2008
- Abstract
We shall review the roadmap for robotic and human exploration of the Moon. After ESA SMART-1, we have currently at the Moon the Chinese Chang’E1 lunar orbiter and Japanese SELENE-Kaguya orbiter in 2007, and the Indian Chandrayaan-1 orbiter and US lunar reconnaissance orbiter in 2008. From 2009 a series of penetrators and soft lander missions to the Moon are under study. Those science and technology missions will serve as precursor missions for future human exploration of the solar system. ILEWG, the International Lunar Exploration Working Group organized the ICEUM International Conferences on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon to consult the community on the definition of recommendations for the future. The last ICEUM has been held in Sorrento, Italy in October 2007 and the next is due in Florida in Oct 2008. We shall report the Sorrento lunar declaration and follow-up work. A strategy for progressive exploration in 4 phases (precursor missions, landers, resource utilisation and deployment of large infrastructures, human permanent presence) was agreed by space agencies coordinated by ILEWG. We shall discuss in particular: - Recent results and key issues: Science of the Moon, from the Moon and on the Moon - Technology activities & Future Missions to the Moon - Moon testbed for robotic outposts & telepresence - Infrastructures deployment and in-situ resources utilisation - Human aspects and expansion in solar system - Recommendations and Space Agencies plans - Synergies with Mars and solar system exploration - New approaches and long term perspectives
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