Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission

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Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission

Li, Yanwei / Srama, Ralf / Henkel, Hartmut / Sternovsky, Zoltan / Kempf, Sascha / Wu, Yiyong / Grün, Eberhard

Abstract One of the highest-priority issues for a future human or robotic lunar exploration is the lunar dust. This problem should be studied in depth in order to develop an environment model for a future lunar exploration. A future ESA lunar lander mission requires the measurement of dust transport phenomena above the lunar surface. Here, we describe an instrument design concept to measure slow and fast moving charged lunar dust which is based on the principle of charge induction. LDX has a low mass and measures the speed and trajectory of individual dust particles with sizes below one micrometer. Furthermore, LDX has an impact ionization target to monitor the interplanetary dust background. The sensor consists of three planes of segmented grid electrodes and each electrode is connected to an individual charge sensitive amplifier. Numerical signals were computed using the Coulomb software package. The LDX sensitive area is approximately 400cm². Our simulations reveal trajectory uncertainties of better than 2° with an absolute position accuracy of better than 2mm.

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Titel :

Instrument study of the Lunar Dust eXplorer (LDX) for a lunar lander mission

Beteiligte:

Li, Yanwei (Autor:in) / Srama, Ralf (Autor:in) / Henkel, Hartmut (Autor:in) / Sternovsky, Zoltan (Autor:in) / Kempf, Sascha (Autor:in) / Wu, Yiyong (Autor:in) / Grün, Eberhard (Autor:in)

Erschienen in:

Advances in Space Research ; 54 , 10 ; 2094-2100

Erscheinungsdatum :

2013-12-09

Format / Umfang :

7 pages

ISSN :

0273-1177

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.12.006

Medientyp :

Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)