Micro-rover Mission Concept for the Canadian, American, British Lunar Explorer (CABLE)
- Paper number
IAC-11,A3,2.P,21,x11542
- Author
Dr. Yunlong Lin, York University, Canada
- Year
2011
- Abstract
A collaborative mission to land a micro-rover carrying a science payload on the Moon has been proposed. Such a Canadian-led international robotic mission to the Moon will combine Canada’s expertise in robotics, space instrumentation, and planetary science, with the UK’s small satellite experience, and lunar orbiter and lander programme, and the USA’s existing lunar science and exploration program provides a unique opportunity for demonstrating an innovative low-cost Canadian-led lunar mission. To minimize the mission cost, the spacecraft carrying the rover from the Earth will land directly on the lunar near-side without a lunar orbiter. The possibility of extending the mission past one lunar day will be investigated. In this paper, the science and four types of science and instruments, the mission engineering design are introduced and analyzed particularly. More in-depth analysis would be conducted in near future for the overall mission design.
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