The Lunar IceCube EM-1 Mission: Prospecting the Moon for Water Ice

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The Lunar IceCube EM-1 Mission: Prospecting the Moon for Water Ice

Benjamin K. Malphrus / Kevin Z. Brown / Jose Garcia / Charles Conner / Jeff Kruth / Michael S. Combs / Nathan Fite / Sean McNeil / Sarah Wilczweski / Kennedy Haught / ... [more]

Abstract

Lunar IceCube is a NASA nanosatellite mission designed to prospect, locate, and measure volumes and composition of water ice deposits and other volatiles on the Moon in support of future exploitation by robots and human explorers. Lunar IceCube is one of several public -private partnerships selected under NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Broad Agency Announcement for the development of advanced exploration systems. Among the first small satellites planned to explore deep space, Lunar IceCube, along with the 12 other Exploration Mission One (EM -1) missions will help lay a foundation for future small-scale planetary missions. In addition to providing useful scientific data, Lunar IceCube will help inform NASA's strategy for sending humans farther into the solar system.

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Title :

The Lunar IceCube EM-1 Mission: Prospecting the Moon for Water Ice

Contributors:

Benjamin K. Malphrus (author) / Kevin Z. Brown (author) / Jose Garcia (author) / Charles Conner (author) / Jeff Kruth (author) / Michael S. Combs (author) / Nathan Fite (author) / Sean McNeil (author) / Sarah Wilczweski (author) / Kennedy Haught (author)

Published in:

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine ; 34 , 4

Publication date :

2019-06-28

ISSN :

1557-959X , 0885-8985

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2019.2909384

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