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Lunar COTS: Using the Moon’S Resources to Enable an Economical and Sustainable Pathway to Mars and Beyond Lunar COTS: Using the Moon’s Resources to Enable An Economical and Sustainable Pathway to Mars and Beyond Dr. Allison Zuniga, Dr. Dan Rasky, Bruce PiGman NASA Ames Research Center LEAG MeeIng, Nov. 1, 2016 1 Background • President Obama’s 2010 Naonal SPace Policy set the following goal for NASA: – By the mid-2030’s, send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. • As a result, NASA has established its Journey to Mars and Evolvable Mars CamPaign (EMC) to: - InvesIgate architectures to further define capabiliIes needed for a sustainable human presence on the surface of Mars. - Proving Ground Objecve: Understand the nature and distribuIon of volales and extracIon techniques and decide on their potenal use in future human exploraon architecture. • Under the EMC, NASA has also develoPed a Pioneering SPace Strategy with the following principles: - Opportuni)es for U.S. commercial business to further enhance the exPerience and business base; - Near-term mission oPPortuniIes with a cadence of human and roboIc missions Providing for an incremental buildup of capabilies; - SubstanIal new interna)onal and commercial partnerships, leveraging the current ISS PartnershiPs while building new cooPerave ventures. 2 Moon as a “Stepping Stone” to Mars • ProsPect and extract lunar resources to assess the From the Moon value proposion to NASA and our Partners. – Lunar resources may prove beneficial for inclusion in future Mars architectures, e.g., lunar-derived propellant • Apply the proven COTS model to develoP low-cost commercial capabiliIes and services, such as: – Lunar Landers and Rovers – Resource Prospecng Techniques – Lunar Mining and ISRU capabiliBes – Lunar Relay CommunicaBon Satellites – Power StaBons • Use campaigns of missions, instead of single missions, in a 3-Phase apProach to incrementally develoP capabiliIes and lower risks. • Establish Economic Development goals by incenIvizing industry to create cis-lunar markets. – NASA should not be sole customer; other customers and new markets should be targeted. The Moon can serve as a Gateway to Mars To Mars and the rest of the Solar System. 3 NASA Commercial Orbital Transporta<on Services (COTS) • NASA’s COTS acquisiIon model Proved to be very effecIve in reducing develoPment and oPeraons costs. Ø Studies showed a 10-to-1 reducon in development costs for SPace-X’s Falcon 9 rocket when comPared to tradiIonal FAR-based contracts. Ø Studies also showed that ISS cargo transPortaon services cost significantly less than Previous SPace ShuGle flights. • Best Prac<ces from COTS are summarized here: 1. NASA and commercial Partners share cost, development and opera)onal risk to demonstrate new capabiliIes for mutual benefit. 2. NASA makes long-term commitments to procure commercial services to helP secure Private investments. 3. NASA encourages commercial Partners to target other markets outside Government to make their business case close. NASA is anchor customer but not sole customer. 4. NASA uses SAA’s to enter into partnership with commercial Partners to offer maximum flexibility in design soluIons without the full demands and requirements of tyPical FAR-based contracts. 5. NASA includes pay-on-performance milestones in SAA’s to Provide several off-ramPs and reduce Programmac risk. 6. Commercial Partners retain Intellectual Property (IP) rights and oPerates and owns final Product(s). 4 Lunar Commercial Transfer Services (LCOTS) GOALS • Establish affordable and economical cis-lunar capabiliIes and services. • Enable develoPment of a sustainable and economical exPloraon architecture for Mars and beyond. • Encourage creaon of new sPace markets to further reduce costs. Approach 1. Use 3-Phase apProach in PartnershiP with industry to incrementally develoP commercial capabiliIes and services. 2. Begin with low-cost, commercial- enabled lunar missions to ProsPect for resources and idenIfy hazards. 3. Determine technical and economic viability of extracIng lunar resources. 5 Apollo Pre-Cursor Campaigns – An Historic Context Ranger Campaign Lunar Orbiter Campaign Surveyor Campaign • Designed to take images of the lunar • Designed to map the lunar surface to aid • Designed to soh land on the lunar surface unIl imPact. in the selecIon of landing sites for APollo surface and helP evaluate the suitability • Acquired knowledge of PotenIal lunar Program. of landing sites for APollo missions. landing sites for APollo missions. • All five missions were successful and 99% • Five of seven missions were successful, • Ranger missions 1-6 Failed, 1961-64 of the Moon was mapPed, 1966-67. 1966-68. • Ranger mission 7-9 were successful, 1964-64. Each mission in a campaign benefited from learning from prior mistakes and took advantage of economies of scale to lower costs. 6 NASA’s post-Apollo Lunar Missions in Search for Water Clemenne Lunar Prospector LRO LCROSS 1994 1998-99 2009-Present 2009 Significant Findings Significant Findings Significant Findings Significant Findings Its Bi-stac Radar ExPeriment On March 5, 1998, scienIsts ScienIsts using LRO’s Mini-RF ScienIsts found evidence Provided data suggesIng the announced that LP’s neutron radar have esImated the that the lunar soil within Presence of water on the lunar sPectrometer instrument had maximum amount of ice, as much shadowy craters is rich in surface near the Poles. detected hydrogen at both as 5 to 10% of material, by useful materials, and also lunar Poles, which scienIsts weight, is likely to be found confirmed the Presence of theorized to be in the form of inside Shackleton crater located water in average water ice. near the moon's South Pole. concentraon of 5.6% by mass. These NASA missions have provided strong evidence for existence of millions of tons of water-ice on the Moon We now need ground truth data to confirm. 7 Lunar COTS Phased Implementaon Phase 1: Low-Cost, Commercial- Phase 2: ISRU Pilot Plant Phase 3: Full-Scale Produc<on Enabled Prospec<ng • ProsPect several sites for surface resources • DeveloP a Pilot-scale ISRU Plant to • NASA awards long-term contracts for and hazards; extract water and Produce uP to 1 metric Lunar ISRU ProducIon on the order of • IdenIfy areas of high concentraons of ton of ProPellant. several metric tons Per year. water-ice and other volales • Demonstrate capabiliIes for ISRU • Assess PotenIal sites for hazards and • Awards are also made for delivery resource Producon. accessibility services to Cis-Lunar DePot. • DeveloP and demonstrate key capabiliIes • Demonstrate lunar transPortaon of in PartnershiP with industry. large Payloads from surface to cis-lunar • Full-scale ISRU facility develoPment of - Lunar Landers and Rovers ProPellant dePot. apProx 200 mt of ProPellant Per year. - Resource ProsPecIng Techniques • Evaluate feasibility and economics of - Lunar Mining and ISRU • ISRU development and produc<on scaling uP ProducIon to full scale. - Lunar Communicaon Satellites facility cost has been esmated at $40B - Power Staons ($4B/year over 10 years). 8 Poten<al Mission Objec<ves Neutron Spectrometer Low-cost commercial missions may be able to meet several explora)on, science and commercial objecIves with small instruments and commercial Products. SamPle list of mission objecIves are as follows: § ProsPect for, characterize and locate PotenIal resources on the Moon (e.g. ice concentraons at the Poles and Precious metals at the equator); § Measure distribuIons and dePths of areas with high hydrogen concentraons; § Measure amounts of radiaon at various sites, within lunar caves and/or lava tubes; § Demonstrate ISRU technologies and oPeraons, such as drilling, for extracIng lunar resources. § Precise delivery and remote oPeraon of commercial Products from the lunar surface. 9 Polar Landing Site Challenges North Pole landing site options driven by following challenges: • Hydrogen concentrations shown by map of LPNS Epithermal Neutrons • Direct-To-Earth Communications • Sun Illumination • Slopes/rough terrain Note: Black areas have less than 5 days of Net Sun and DTE access LCOTS Partnership Strategy 1. Employ the proven COTS model – Enables economical and sustainable missions – Establish “cost and risk-sharing” PartnershiPs 2. Use available low-cost secondary payload opportunies – On medium-class launch vehicles, e.g., SPaceX’s Falcon 9 or ULA’s Atlas V 3. Partner with commercial and internaonal organizaons – To leverage exisIng Lunar transPortaon and rover capabiliIes – E.g., Google Lunar X-Prize and CATALYST teams. 4. Explore addi<onal partnerships to develop other key capabilies, such as: – Lunar Mining, Drilling and Excavaon Techniques – Lunar Relay Communicaon Satellites – Lunar ISRU OPeraons – Solar or Nuclear Power Staons 5. Partner with companies interested in being the first to develop commercial products for the Moon. 11 Potenal Lunar Lander Opons Lunar Lander Teams Targeted First Mission and Capabili<es Planned for launch in late 2017 to Lacus MorIs. AstroboIc’s GLXP Team Peregrine capability ranges from 35 kg to 265 kg to lunar surface. Signed launch agreement with RocketLab’s Electron Moon ExPress GLXP Team Launch Vehicle for 3 lunar missions from 2017 to 2020. Launch is TBD. Landers in develoPment include Xaero, Masten SPace Systems Xoie, Xombie and XEUS. Signed launch agreement via SPaceFlight with Israel’s SPaceIL GLXP SPaceX’s Falcon 9 for a late 2017 launch. Team Germany’s Part-Time Planned for launch in 2017 to APollo 17 landing site ScienIsts GLXP Team (Taurus-LiGrow Valley). Planned for launch early next decade on ULA’s Vulcan ULA’s XEUS, ACES derived launch vehicle. Lander capability is apProx 3.8
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