Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration Missions: The CIRA-TEDS Program Roadmap Perspectives

Favaloro, Nunzia; Saccone, Guido; Piscitelli, Filomena; Volponi, R.; Leoncini, Paolo; Catalano, Pietro; Visingardi, Antonio; Noviello, Maria Chiara

doi:10.1007/s42496-023-00159-4

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“… SUB-STEP 2.2: LPT system data analysis, by means of the implementation of analysis loops to process data resulting from the sub-step 2.1, [5], to be confronted with into the:  SUB-STEP 2.3: dealing with the consistency assessment of the values deriving from the previous sub-steps. • STEP 3: not object of the present work, regarding the LPT system design and optimization of design parameters, [7].…”

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Continuous empowering with laser power transmission technologies for ISRU moon assets: CIRA approach

Noviello

2023

Materials Research Proceedings

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Abstract. Due to the potential possibility of changing the dynamics of the New Space Economy, In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) is acquiring more and more importance within the Space Exploration scenario. Indeed, the closest space missions will return humans to the Moon, while planning the long-term stay. This aspect opens the way to the need for employment and processing of local resources, with the aim of reducing the dependence on Earth-based resources, also ensuring the financial sustainability of the space exploration programs. ISRU technologies will demand for energy values likely to be in the Megawatt range and, eventually, at Gigawatt levels, to be ensured in the harsh hazardous environmental conditions of the celestial bodies (e.g. Moon, Mars, Near Earth Asteroids). This work, performed by the CIRA TEES Laboratory, provides the CIRA approach to the feasibility study concerning the Laser Power Transmission (LPT) technologies for Moon assets empowering. The aim is to evaluate whether LPT can be a potentially efficient solution for continuous power delivery from an orbiting source device, considering long-distance wireless employments and severe environmental conditions, to drive ISRU Moon assets (habitats, rovers, local industrial plants, conveyance facilities, et cetera). For the purpose of this study, starting from the space mission identification, an increasing complexity multi-step approach was properly conceived by CIRA to design the dedicated LPT system responding to the evaluated mission requirements.

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Continuous empowering with laser power transmission technologies for ISRU moon assets: CIRA approach

Noviello

2023

Materials Research Proceedings

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“…During the last years, the interest of the international scientific community in space exploration and colonization is growing up, particularly toward Mars. For this scope the CIRA-PRORA research program TEDS [1] has identified some of the most promising technologies and research areas for human/robotic exploration, and human survivability in hostile environments in future space missions. Within this program, focusing on Mars exploration and colonization, the study of Aerodynamics in the Martian low atmosphere, characterized by low Reynolds number (10 4 -10 5 ) and high Mach number in the compressible or transonic range (0.2 -0.7), is one of the research areas to investigate.…”

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Assessment of aerodynamics of low Martian atmosphere within the CIRA program TEDS

D’Aniello

2023

Materials Research Proceedings

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Abstract. The space exploration and colonization Roadmap, and the growing interest of the international scientific community toward the Mars colonization, are highlighting the need to develop, or improve to higher TRLs, those technologies enabling human exploration and colonization. In this framework, the CIRA - PRORA research program TEDS has identified some of the most promising technologies and research areas for human/robotic exploration, and human survivability in hostile environments in future space missions. In this contest, Aerodynamics in the Martian low atmosphere, characterized by low Reynolds number and high Mach number, is one of the research areas to investigate. The compressible aerodynamics of low Reynolds number flow (Reynolds number of orders of magnitude 104-105 and Mach number of 0.2-0.7) characterizes the low altitude Martian atmosphere. The need in the exploration of the Martian surface has increased the interest in this “particular" aerodynamic regime, currently, scarcely investigated, and an assessment of the numerical methods is necessary. Three suitable airfoils for compressible low-Reynolds aerodynamics in Martian atmosphere have been selected through a bibliographic study: Triangular, NACA 0012-34 and Ishii airfoils. The experiments in the low-density CO2 facility of the Mars Wind Tunnel, at Tohoku University, over a Triangular, NACA0012-34 and Ishii airfoils with global forces and local PSP measurements, have been considered. The CIRA in-house developed flow solver UZEN (Unsteady Zonal Euler Navier-Stokes) code has been applied by employing several turbulence models. The flow over the Triangular airfoil has been simulated inside the wind tunnel and the free air flow over the NACA 0012-34 and Ishii airfoils have been simulated, and in this paper many results are reported.

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Dust Mitigation Strategies Enabling Moon Exploration Missions

Saccone,

Favaloro

2024

Aerotec. Missili Spaz.

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Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration Missions: The CIRA-TEDS Program Roadmap Perspectives

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Continuous empowering with laser power transmission technologies for ISRU moon assets: CIRA approach

Continuous empowering with laser power transmission technologies for ISRU moon assets: CIRA approach

Assessment of aerodynamics of low Martian atmosphere within the CIRA program TEDS

Dust Mitigation Strategies Enabling Moon Exploration Missions

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