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Lunar Net—A Proposal in Response to an ESA M3 Call in 2010 for a Medium Sized Mission Exp Astron DOI 10.1007/s10686-011-9250-5 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Lunar Net—a proposal in response to an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized mission Alan Smith · I. A. Crawford · Robert Anthony Gowen · R. Ambrosi · M. Anand · B. Banerdt · N. Bannister · N. Bowles · C. Braithwaite · P. Brown · J. Chela-Flores · T. Cholinser · P. Church · A. J. Coates · T. Colaprete · G. Collins · G. Collinson · T. Cook · R. Elphic · G. Fraser · Y. Gao · E. Gibson · T. Glotch · M. Grande · A. Griffiths · J. Grygorczuk · M. Gudipati · A. Hagermann · J. Heldmann · L. L. Hood · A. P. Jones · K. H. Joy · O. B. Khavroshkin · G. Klingelhoefer · M. Knapmeyer · G. Kramer · D. Lawrence · W. Marczewski · S. McKenna-Lawlor · K. Miljkovic · S. Narendranath · E. Palomba · A. Phipps · W. T. Pike · D. Pullan · J. Rask · D. T. Richard · K. Seweryn · S. Sheridan · M. Sims · M. Sweeting · T. Swindle · D. Talboys · L. Taylor · N. Teanby · V. Tong · S. Ulamec · R. Wawrzaszek · M. Wieczorek · L. Wilson · IWright Received: 31 March 2011 / Accepted: 4 August 2011 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 A. Smith · R. A. Gowen (B) · A. J. Coates · A. Griffiths Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK e-mail: [email protected] A. Smith e-mail: [email protected] I. A. Crawford · V. Tong Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK P. Brown · G. Collins · W. T. Pike · K. Miljkovic · W. T. Pike Imperial College London, London, UK A. P. Jones Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK Y. Gao Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK P. Church QinetiQ Ltd., Fort Halsted, Sevenoaks, UK M. Anand · A. Hagermann · S. Sheridan · I. Wright CEPSAR, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK R. Ambrosi · N. Bannister · G. Fraser · D. Pullan · M. Sims · D. Talboys University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Exp Astron Abstract Emplacement of four or more kinetic penetrators geographically distributed over the lunar surface can enable a broad range of scientific explo- ration objectives of high priority and provide significant synergy with planned orbital missions. Whilst past landed missions achieved a great deal, they have not included a far-side lander, or investigation of the lunar interior apart from a very small area on the near side. Though the LCROSS mission detected water from a permanently shadowed polar crater, there remains in-situ confirmation, knowledge of concentration levels, and detailed identification of potential organic chemistry of astrobiology interest. The planned investigations will also address issues relating to the origin and evolution of the Earth–Moon system and other Solar System planetary bodies. Manned missions would be enhanced with use of water as a potential in-situ resource; knowledge of potential risks from damaging surface Moonquakes, and exploitation of lunar regolith for radiation shielding. LunarNet is an evolution of the 2007 LunarEX proposal to ESA (European Space Agency) which draws on recent significant advances in mission definition and feasibility. In particular, the successful Pendine full-scale impact trials have proved impact survivability for many of the key technology items, and a penetrator system study has greatly improved C. Braithwaite Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK A. Phipps · M. Sweeting SSTL, Tycho House, 20 Stephenson Road, Guildford, UK L. Wilson Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK N. Teanby School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK N. Bowles Oxford University, Oxford, UK T. Cook · M. Grande Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, UK S. McKenna-Lawlor Space Technology Ireland, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland J. Grygorczuk · W. Marczewski · K. Seweryn · R. Wawrzaszek Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland E. Palomba IFSI-INAF, Rome, Italy J. Chela-Flores The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Exp Astron the definition of descent systems, detailed penetrator designs, and required resources. LunarNet is hereby proposed as an exciting stand-alone mission, though is also well suited in whole or in-part to contribute to the jigsaw of upcoming lunar missions, including that of a significant element to the ILN (International Lunar Network). Keywords Moon · Lunar · Penetrators · Space · Technology · MEMS 1 Overview LunarNet is a proposal for a penetrator mission to the Moon, submitted to ESA in December 2010 in response to ESA’s call for medium class missions suitable for launch in 2022 [12]. This paper presents that proposal in full, together with some small changes to incorporate additional knowledge gained since submission. G. Klingelhoefer Institute for Inorganic and Analytic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany M. Wieczorek Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Univ Paris Diderot, Paris, France M. Knapmeyer DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany S. Ulamec DLR-MUSC, Cologne, Germany O. B. Khavroshkin Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia S. Narendranath ISRO, Bangalore, India T. Cholinser Hong Kong, China G. Collinson NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA T. Colaprete · J. Rask NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA D. Lawrence Johns Hopkins APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA T. Glotch Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA Exp Astron While the surface missions to the Moon of the 1970s achieved a great deal scientifically, major questions in lunar science were left unresolved. The recent plethora of lunar missions (flown and proposed) reflects a major resurgence of interest in the Moon, not only in its own right, but also as a record of the early solar system including the formation and evolution of the early Earth. Results from recent orbiter missions have shown evidence of ice within shadowed craters at the lunar poles, and Chandrayaan-1 has detected OH-HOH over major portions of the Moon. We propose a highly cost effective M-class lunar mission that will place four or more scientifically instrumented penetrators into the shallow lunar surface. LunarNet will address key issues related to the origin and evolution of plan- etary bodies as well as the astrobiologically important possibilities associated with polar ice. LunarNet will provide important information about: • The size and physical state of the lunar core • The deep structure of the lunar mantle • The thickness of the far-side lunar crust • The nature of natural Moonquakes, in particular the origin of shallow Moonquakes • The composition and thermal evolution of the Moon’s interior • The existence, nature and origin of polar ice—exciting scientifically and key to future manned exploration of the Moon and beyond The penetrators will be globally dispersed (unlike the Apollo and Luna missions) with landing sites on the nearside Procellarum KREEP Terrane, poles and far-side, and will operate 2–5 m beneath the lunar surface for 1 year. L. L. Hood · T. Swindle Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA D. T. Richard San Jose State University/NASA Ames Research Center MS 245–3, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA R. Elphic · J. Heldmann NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA L. Taylor University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996, USA E. Gibson NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Road 1, Houston, TX 77058, USA B. Banerdt · M. Gudipati Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA K. H. Joy · G. Kramer Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX 77058, USA Exp Astron Each penetrator will include a suite of scientific instruments including micro-seismometers, a geochemistry package, a water/volatiles detector, a heat flow experiment, and an impact accelerometer. For an instrument to survive an impact at 300 m s−1 is entirely feasible and a vast amount of resources have been devoted to developing such capability within a defence context. ‘Penetrators’ are common-place within that sector and instrumentation is available off-the-shelf which will survive impacts of >50,000 gee1 (LunarNet expects <20,000 gee). This expertise is by no means purely empirical in nature; and a very sophisticated predictive modelling capability also exists. The UK penetrator consortium has already drawn on this expertise to rapidly achieve the successful full-scale ground demonstration of impact survivability into a lunar regolith simulant. Also, Mars 96 [60], DS- 2[58], and Lunar-A [38] penetrator development programmes have already overcome many key problems and demonstrated payload survivability in ground tests. The penetrator delivery to the lunar surface will take place in two stages: • The penetrators will be transferred to lunar orbit as the payload of what will become a polar orbit communications relay satellite • Release, de-orbit and descent. Each penetrator will have an attached de- orbit motor and attitude control system (both of which are ejected before impact) The mission is compatible with a single Soyuz-Fregat launch for a nominal four penetrator payload with a 30% mass contingency. LunarNet will fill an important gap within the proposed international lunar mission portfolio (including the ILN) and facilitate future scientific exploration
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