LUNAR EXPLORATION

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LUNAR EXPLORATION

• Session 1

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Participants

• Scott Hovland, ESA
• Dietrich Vennemann ESA
• Lisa Guerra, NASA
• Tom Jasin, NASA
• Kohtaro Matsumoto, JAXA
• Hidemi Hase, JAXA
• Sylvie Espinasse, ASI
• Simonetta di Pippo, ASI

• parttime
• Kate Maliga, NASA
• Marcello Coradini, ESA
• Kiyoshi Higuchi, JAXA
• Rainer Steinmeyer, ESA
• Peter Ahlf, NASA
• Andrea Lorenzoni ASI

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Agenda

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• 0915 0930 Introduction and
  objectives (Chairs)
• Robotic Missions to the Moon (0930 1230)
• Moon Exploration (Espinasse, ASI)
• Lunar Exploration in JAXAs Long Term
  Vision (Matsumoto, JAXA)
• An Introduction to the Robotic Lunar Exploration
  Program (Jasin, NASA)
• SMART-1 (Coradini, ESA)
• Human Lunar Architecture (1400 1800)
• ESA Human Lunar Architecture Activities (Hovland
  , ESA)
• Lunar Strategic Roadmap Status (Guerra, NASA)

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Robotic Missions to the Moon

• Two missions are under way
• SELENE to be launched in 2006
• LRO for launch in 2008
• ASI, JAXA and NASA study future missions
• ASI looks at a wide range from orbiter to lander
  with mobility
• JAXA wishes to continue the SELENE series,
  potentially followed with an ISRU mission
• NASA is working on a lander as Mission 2 and
  another orbiter to complete research from orbit
• ESA, through its Science Directorate, is
  considering and discussing participation in
  Chandrayan and Change
• An orbiter following on LRO seems to be an
  excellent opportunity for international
  co-operation
• Science goals match or are complementary

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Human Lunar Architecture

• ESA presented a vision for Lunar Exploration
  which was backed-up by architecture studies in
  the ESTEC Concurrent Design Facility
• A further architecture study addressed an
  excursion scenario and a lunar base scenario
• More studies are planned to help identify
  elements which Europe could contribute to an
  international endeavour
• NASAs presentation addressed the outcome so far
  of the Lunar Roadmapping activity, which is now
  accelerated and shall lead to an overall
  architecture by July
• The following scenario options were elaborated
• Lunar Evolution Early Outpost
• Early Lunar Resources Expedited Moon-to-Mars
• Need for a heavy lift launch vehicle identified
  from Mars requirements
• More intense exchange on architecture trades
  desirable
• All participants agreed to further discuss how
  this can be done in a rapidly changing
  environment

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Working Groups

• The group was concerned about the many different
  groups discussing exploration and claiming to
  co-ordinate
• In view of the complexity of the exploration
  scene there no easy way out
• It was suggested to try and reduce the number of
  groups and to define the relations and interfaces
  between them by identifying clear terms