Chemical Lidar Science Payload for the Lunar Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter

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dc.creatorKruzelecky, Roman
dc.creatorMurzionak, Piotr
dc.creatorSinclair, Ian
dc.creatorGao, Yang
dc.creatorBridges, Chris
dc.creatorLuccafabris, Andrea
dc.creatorCloutis, Edward
dc.creatorSt-Amour, Amelie
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-27T14:23:56Z
dc.date.available2020-07-27T14:23:56Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-31
dc.descriptionRoman Kruzelecky, MPB Communications Inc., CA
dc.descriptionPiotr Murzionak, MPB Communications Inc., CA
dc.descriptionIan Sinclair, MPB Communications Inc., CA
dc.descriptionYang Gao, University of Surrey, GB
dc.descriptionChris Bridges, University of Surrey, GB
dc.descriptionAndrea Luccafabris, University of Surrey, GB
dc.descriptionEdward Cloutis, University of Winnipeg, CA
dc.descriptionAmelie St-Amour, NGC Aerospace Ltd., CA
dc.descriptionICES308: Advanced Technologies for In-Situ Resource Utilization
dc.descriptionThe proceedings for the 2020 International Conference on Environmental Systems were published from July 31, 2020. The technical papers were not presented in person due to the inability to hold the event as scheduled in Lisbon, Portugal because of the COVID-19 global pandemic.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe distribution and quantity of surficial in-situ lunar resources, such as water ice and ilmenite (FeTiO3), is currently highly uncertain. Moreover, planned near-future lunar orbiter missions are limited to a volatile-mapping spatial resolution of several km. VMMO, for Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter, is a low-cost 12U Cubesat that comprises the Lunar Volatile and Mineralogy Mapper (LVMM) science payload, the Compact LunAr Ionizing Radiation Environment (CLAIRE) monitoring payload, a COTS electronics test bed, and the supporting 12U Cubesat bus with dual ion and cold-gas propulsion, direct-to-Earth S-band and 1560nm optical communications, on-board data processing and a suite of altitude and pointing sensors for semiautonomous, vision-assisted navigation. VMMO will most likely be deployed from a commercial lunar transportation provider, such as Astrobotics, and injected into a suitable near-polar orbit. On-board propulsion will be used to achieve a stable near-frozen polar orbit for the subsequent science operations. The compact LVMM is a multi-wavelength Chemical Lidar (<6.1 kg) using fiber lasers emitting simultaneously at 532nm, 1064nm and 1560nm, for stand-off mapping of lunar water/ice distribution using active laser illumination. The active measurements will focus on selected craters in the lunar South pole, such as Shackleton and Faustini, that contain permanently-shadowed regions that could shelter water ice deposits. This combination of spectral channels can provide very sensitive discrimination of water/ice to below 0.5% in various Mare and Highland regolith, based on pre-flight bread-board validations. The use of single-mode fiber lasers enables a spatial resolution of about 10m at the lunar surface. LVMM can also be used in a passive multispectral mode at 300nm, 532nm, 1064nm and 1560nm to map the lunar ilmenite in-situ resource distribution during the lunar day using known characteristics of surface-reflected solar illumination. This paper discusses the VMMO augmented science configuration and the resultant mission architecture and data products.
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dc.identifier.otherICES_2020_204
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/86353
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher2020 International Conference on Environmental Systems
dc.subject12U Cubesat
dc.subjectChemical lidar
dc.subjectLunar volatiles
dc.subjectLunar water ice cycle
dc.subjectIn-situ resource utilization (ISRU)
dc.subjectIlmenite
dc.titleChemical Lidar Science Payload for the Lunar Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter
dc.typePresentation

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