Y. Gao, A. Phipps, M. Taylor, J. Clemmet, D. Parker, I.A. Crawfort, A.J. Ball, L. Wilson, A. da Silva Curiel, P. Davies, M. Sweeting, A. Baker

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) and Surrey Space Centre (SSC) have been preparing a "smallsat" approach to achieving a low-cost lunar mission for more than a decade - including various activities, such as the earlier ESA study on LunarSat and currently hardware contribution to the Chandrayaan-1 mission. With the recent successes in GIOVE-A, TOPSAT and BEIJING-1, alongside participation in Aurora & Chandrayaan-1, Surrey have developed capabilities for providing affordable engineering solutions to space exploration. SSTL/SSC was recently funded by UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) to undertake a study on low-cost lunar mission concepts that could address key scientific questions. This paper presents some key results from this study [1] and provides preliminary definitions of two down-selected mission proposals.

DGLR Symposium "To Moon and Beyond", 2007, Bremen

Conference Paper

englisch

A4, 10 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 2007, 2007-02, To Moon and Beyond; S.1-10; 2007; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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Aufsatz in getr. Zählung;

Bibliothek

2007