INTERNATIONAL LUNAR OBSERVATORY ASSOCIATION (ILOA), HAWAII, UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2010: ILO PRECURSORS A / B, ILO PERMANENT, and ILO HUMAN SERVICE MISSIONS. Steve Durst, Charles Bohannan, Joseph Sulla, et al, ILOA / Space Age Publishing Company,
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IAC-10.A3.4.7
- Author
Mr. Steve Durst, International Lunar Observatory Association, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Charles Bohannan, ILOA, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Joseph Sulla, ILOA, United States
- Year
2010
- Abstract
Introduction: ILOA principal activities for 2010 include continuing collaboration with MDA Canada on ILO Precursor A Study for Odyssey Moon's OM-1 mission and ILO Precursor B Study for possible collaboration with ISRO India Chandrayaan-2 mission. Precursors A and B, NET late 2012, to test and develop ILO primary observation and communication functions for ILO Permanent, ILO Human Service Missions. ILOA GIS study characterizing lunar south pole region potential landing site using international lunar data sets. ILOA developing Galaxy Forum Architecture for 21st century education and fundraising. Five ILOA Directors meetings in 2010 in Hawaii, Beijing, Silicon Valley, Prague, and Hawaii again. ILOA's Precursor A and B Missions, with two similar, 2.5kg instruments now being designed by MDA, will demonstrate astronomical and other observation and communication techniques. Precursor A will be carried aboard OM-1's lander, Odyssey Moon's inaugural "MoonOne" mission of scientific and commercial payloads and destined for lunar equator in pursuit of the Google Lunar X Prize. Precursor B may be carried aboard Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. ILOA's long duration Mission, designed since 2003 by SpaceDev Inc of USA and being continued by MDA, will establish permanent astrophysical observation and lunar commercial communications systems in an area on the Moon where robotic and human buildout will occur. This may include a landing site in the mountainous South Pole region as determined by thorough GIS analysis of exclusive China Chang'e-1, India Chandrayaan-1, Japan Kaguya, Europe Smart-1, and USA Arecibo, Clementine, Prospector, and LRO data. ILOA's Human Service Mission, with studies completed in 2005 and 2006 by SpaceDev, now Sierra Nevada Corp., and advanced by Benson Space Company in 2007, is being planned as part of an independent-national-international science and commerce collaboration to service and support the ILO/s and parallel robotic village facilities, by 2015-2020, and emerging lunar base settlements. With its Space Age Publishing Company affiliate, ILOA is designing a Galaxy Forum architecture, which utilizes Galaxy Forums to advance general science education for students across all classrooms, and serve as ILOA's main venue for institutional and philanthropic fundraising. Galaxy Forums 2010 include events in Hawaii, California, Canada, Kansas, China, India, Prague, Japan, with the theme 'Galaxy Education and Stellar Academics in the 21st Century'. ILOA is an interglobal enterprise incorporated in Hawaii as a 501(c)(3) non-profit to help realize the multifunctional ILO -- to advance human knowledge of the Cosmos through observation from our Moon -- and to participate in lunar base build-out.
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