TY - GEN
T1 - NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Mission
T2 - 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2022
AU - Ehlmann, Bethany L.
AU - Klima, Rachel L.
AU - Seybold, Calina C.
AU - Klesh, Andrew T.
AU - Au, Mitchell H.
AU - Bender, Holly A.
AU - Bennett, C. Lee
AU - Blaney, Diana L.
AU - Bowles, Neil
AU - Calcutt, Simon
AU - Copley-Woods, Djuna
AU - Dickson, James L.
AU - Djotni, Karim
AU - Hanna, Kerri Donaldson
AU - Edwards, Christopher S.
AU - Evans, Rory
AU - Felder, Emily
AU - Fogg, Robert
AU - Green, Robert O.
AU - Hawkins, Gary
AU - House, Martha
AU - Islas, Samuel
AU - Lantoine, Gregory
AU - Linch, Sue
AU - McCaa, Thomas
AU - McKinley, Ian
AU - Merkley, Trevor F.
AU - Miura, Jasper K.
AU - Pieters, Carle M.
AU - Santiago, Wil
AU - Scire, Elena
AU - Sherwood, Richard
AU - Shirley, Katherine
AU - Smith, Chris
AU - Sondheim, Michael
AU - Sullivan, Peter
AU - Temples, Jon
AU - Thompson, David R.
AU - Waldorff, Kristian I.
AU - Williamson, Walton R.
AU - Warren, Tristam J.
AU - Wood, Joshua L.
AU - Zareh, Shannon
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the NASA HQ and PMPO offices and the entire team and staff contributing to the success of Lunar Trailblazer at Caltech, JPL, Lockheed, the University of Oxford, UKSA, and other partners. Lunar Trailblazer is funded at Caltech campus under NASA contract 80MSFC19C0042. A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0019F0079). For more information, see trailblazer.caltech.edu and follow the
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Selected in 2019 as a NASA SIMPLEx mission, Lunar Trailblazer is in implementation for flight system delivery at the end of 2022. The mission's goal is to understand the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon and the lunar water cycle. Lunar Trailblazer also collects data of candidate landing sites to inform planning for future human and robotic exploration of the Moon and evaluate the potential for in situ resource utilization. Lunar Trailblazer's two science instruments, the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) and the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) provide simultaneous high-resolution spectral imaging data to map OH/water, crustal composition, and thermophysical properties from a 100pm 30 km lunar polar orbit. The ∼210-kg flight system deploys from an ESPA Grande and utilizes a ∼1000 m/s Deltamathrm{V} hydrazine chemical propulsion system, similar to that employed by GRAIL. Trailblazing elements include the novel state-of-the-art dataset collected at substantially reduced price point, fully geographically co-registered data products delivered to the Planetary Data System, planetary mission team demographics, Caltech campus mission operations, and student staffing of select mission ops roles. Lunar Trailblazer's pioneering development is providing key lessons learned for future planetary small spacecraft.
AB - Selected in 2019 as a NASA SIMPLEx mission, Lunar Trailblazer is in implementation for flight system delivery at the end of 2022. The mission's goal is to understand the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon and the lunar water cycle. Lunar Trailblazer also collects data of candidate landing sites to inform planning for future human and robotic exploration of the Moon and evaluate the potential for in situ resource utilization. Lunar Trailblazer's two science instruments, the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper (HVM3) and the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) provide simultaneous high-resolution spectral imaging data to map OH/water, crustal composition, and thermophysical properties from a 100pm 30 km lunar polar orbit. The ∼210-kg flight system deploys from an ESPA Grande and utilizes a ∼1000 m/s Deltamathrm{V} hydrazine chemical propulsion system, similar to that employed by GRAIL. Trailblazing elements include the novel state-of-the-art dataset collected at substantially reduced price point, fully geographically co-registered data products delivered to the Planetary Data System, planetary mission team demographics, Caltech campus mission operations, and student staffing of select mission ops roles. Lunar Trailblazer's pioneering development is providing key lessons learned for future planetary small spacecraft.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843663
DO - 10.1109/AERO53065.2022.9843663
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137558096
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
BT - 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2022
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 5 March 2022 through 12 March 2022
ER -