The Lunar IceCube EM-1 Mission: Prospecting the Moon for Water Ice

Malphrus, Benjamin K.; Brown, Kevin; Garcia, J.; Conner, Charles D.; Kruth, Jeff; Combs, M.; Fite, N. D.; McNeil, Sean; Wilczweski, Sarah; Haught, Kennedy; Zucherman, Aaron; Clark, P. E.; Angkasa, Krisjani; Richard, Nathaniel; Hurford, T. A.; Folta, D.; Brambora, Clifford; MacDowall, R. J.; Mason, Paul; Hur-Diaz, Sun; Breeden, Joseph L.; Nakamura, Robert M.; Martínez, Andrés; Tsay, Michael

doi:10.1109/maes.2019.2909384

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“…Lunar IceCube is a CubeSat mission that has been launched as secondary payload of the ARTEMIS-1 Moon mission in November 2022 [9]. The CubeSat has been built by Morehead State University to orbit the moon at a low altitude, searching for water and other resources on the lunar surface.…”

Section: B Lunar Icecubementioning

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DTN Demonstrations with ESA Ground Segment

Malnati,

Flentge

2024

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In this paper we will present the results of two DTN demonstration activities carried out in the ESA Ground Segment. The first demonstration has been prepared with the OPS-SAT spacecraft, to demonstrate a full DTN protocol stack with CFDP, Bundle Protocol, LTP, CCSDS Space Packet Protocol and show the ESA Ground Segment Bundle Protocol implementation capabilities. The second demonstration has been performed in collaboration with Morehead State University, NASA JPL and D3TN, with the aim to show interoperability of DTN implementations across space agencies and external partners.

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Section: B Lunar Icecubementioning

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DTN Demonstrations with ESA Ground Segment

Malnati,

Flentge

2024

Preprint

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“…Now they are planned to be used by national space agencies also for interplanetary missions, with a high scientific return. Following the success of MarCO [1], several deep-space CubeSats missions have been scheduled, such as NEA Scout, Lunar IceCube, Lumio, Juventas & Milani and M-Argo [2][3][4][5].…”

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Autonomous Wheel Off-Loading Strategies for Deep-Space CubeSats

Pizzetti

Rizza

Topputo

2022

Aerotec. Missili Spaz.

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Deep-space CubeSats missions require careful trade-offs on design drivers such as mass, volume, and cost, while ensuring autonomous operations. This work elaborates the possibility of off-loading the reaction wheels without the need of carrying a bulky and expensive reaction control system or the field-dependent magnetotorquers. The momentum accumulated along two body axes can be removed by either offsetting the main thruster with a gimbal mechanism or by tilting differentially the solar wings. The dumping on the third axis can be still accomplished by imposing a specific attitude trajectory with the motion of either the gimbal or the arrays drive mechanism. The M-Argo CubeSat is selected as case study to test the techniques along its deep-space trajectory. The strategies decision-making is autonomously carried out by a state machine. The off-loading during the cruising arcs employs the gimballed thruster and takes typically 3 h, granting a mass savings of more than 99% with respect to the usage of a reaction control system. The trajectory is shown to have negligible differences with respect to the nominal one, since the thrust is corrected accordingly. During the coasting arcs, the solar arrays are tilted and several hours are required, depending on the Sun direction and intensity, but the propellant is completely saved. Sensitivity analyses are also carried out on the initial angular momentum components and the center of mass displacement to check the robustness of the algorithms.

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Planetary Rovers on Extreme Terrains: Emergencies and Responses

Kara

2024

Springer Aerospace Technology

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The Lunar IceCube EM-1 Mission: Prospecting the Moon for Water Ice

Cited by 24 publications

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DTN Demonstrations with ESA Ground Segment

DTN Demonstrations with ESA Ground Segment

Autonomous Wheel Off-Loading Strategies for Deep-Space CubeSats

Planetary Rovers on Extreme Terrains: Emergencies and Responses

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