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Although the future destination for manned space flight may not be well defined, the need for a near-surface, close-proximity astronaut maneuvering unit is necessary. The demand for an operational system capable of providing both translation and attitude control in a low-gravity environment will significantly improve the success of future manned space flight missions. The proposed Mobility Augmenting...
A persistent distributed lunar surface sensor network will help to build greater insight into the lunar environment than ever before. The challenge facing such a network lies in providing power to its nodes for the long lunar night. Additionally, a complete lunar science network will require at least one orbiter to serve as a communication relay to farside sites. Current concepts involve either solar-electric...
The goal of this paper is to describe a first-order performance analysis of a lunar hopper. A hopper is a vehicle that has both landing and surface mobility capabilities on a single platform. Unlike rovers, which traverse the lunar surface while in contact with the ground, hopping reuses the landing propulsion system to lift back off again and ??hop?? over the lunar terrain. Hopping, as a form of...
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