Exploring Extreme Lunar Environments through In-Flight Swarm Deployments

Ehrlich, Joshua W.; Cichan, Tim; Gebhardt, Ariel M.; Marcinkowski, Adam; Fuller, John C.; Western, David L.

doi:10.1109/aero50100.2021.9438173

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“…For example, utilizing lunar in-situ resource is a key driver for long-term and sustainable space exploration; the finding of mineable water resources on the moon has led to commercial lunar payload services (CLPS) and human landing system (HLS) programs. To gain better understanding of the lunar environment, the swarms of low-mass and low-cost payloads were developed to collect environmental information at a lower cost per kilogram; note that payloads were survival subjected to high impact forces from different landing altitudes [59]. To assess the values of space matters, characterizing chemical composition in a volatile material or organic molecule is among the top priorities of space missions since the beginning of in-situ space exploration.…”

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“…Pakdeepinit et al [117] developed a framework for spacecraft to share information about data rate, propagation delay reception signal strength, and bit error rate to establish and sustain the topological connections with optimized communication in a cluster and with others. To further collect information of lunar environment, swarms of low-mass payloads were used to cover wide areas at much lower costs per kilogram than conventional robotic missions; they should be survival subjected to high impact forces from different landing altitudes [59].…”

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The State of the Art of Information Integration in Space Applications

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This paper aims to present a comprehensive survey on information integration (II) in space informatics. With an ever-increasing scale and dynamics of complex space systems, II has become essential in dealing with the complexity, changes, dynamics, and uncertainties of space systems. The applications of space II (SII) require addressing some distinctive functional requirements (FRs) of heterogeneity, networking, communication, security, latency, and resilience; while limited works are available to examine recent advances of SII thoroughly. This survey helps to gain the understanding of the state of the art of SII in sense that (1) technical drivers for SII are discussed and classified; (2) existing works in space system development are analyzed in terms of their contributions to space economy, divisions, activities, and missions; (3) enabling space information technologies are explored at aspects of sensing, communication, networking, data analysis, and system integration; (4) the importance of first-time right (FTR) for implementation of a space system is emphasized, the limitations of digital twin (DT-I) as technological enablers are discussed, and a concept digital-triad (DT-II) is introduced as an information platform to overcome these limitations with a list of fundamental design principles; (5) the research challenges and opportunities are discussed to promote SII and advance space informatics in future.INDEX TERMS Information integration (II), space informatics, digital triad (DT-II), internet of digital-triad things (IoDTT), first-time right (FTR), space information integration (SII). FIGURE 2. Technical drivers of II applications.

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