Evaluation of Lunar Dust Mitigation Strategies for Thermal Control Surfaces

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gaier ◽  
Deborah Waters ◽  
Bruce Banks ◽  
Khrissaundra Journey ◽  
Steven Christopher
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Control ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Lunar Dust ◽  
Control Surfaces

Effect of Simulated Lunar Dust on the Properties of Thermal Control Surfaces

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Gaier ◽  
John Siamidis ◽  
Elizabeth M. G. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Control ◽  
Lunar Dust ◽  
Control Surfaces

Studies of Simulated Lunar Dust on the Properties of Thermal-Control Surfaces

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 848-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Gaier ◽  
Michael C. Hicks ◽  
Robert M. Misconin
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Control ◽  
Lunar Dust ◽  
Control Surfaces

Thermal control surfaces

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Meseguer ◽  
Isabel Pérez-Grande ◽  
Angel Sanz-Andrés
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Control ◽  
Control Surfaces

Contamination and space environmental effects on solar cells and thermal control surfaces

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 850-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce A. Dever ◽  
Eric J. Bruckner ◽  
David A. Scheiman ◽  
Curtis R. Stidham
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Thermal Control ◽  
Control Surfaces

Simulations of Lunar Dust interaction with exploration systems and instruments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice Cipriani ◽  
François Piette
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Imaging System ◽  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Thermal Control ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Lunar Dust ◽  
Dust Transport ◽  
Predictive Algorithms ◽  
Performance Variations

<p>Lunar Dust is representing both an engineering challenge for future exploration missions due to systems potential contamination (due to regolith mobilization during e.g. traverse phases, landings, scooping, astronauts EVAs..) and a scientific target for e.g. mineralogical and compositional analysis of the Lunar surface. Therefore predicting not only interactions with systems but also payloads landed at the lunar surface is an important part of future missions design. Strong partnerships and synergies between agencies and space industries are now allowing the preparation of new missions with challenging timescales, for a return to the Moon in the next couple of years. In this context, the analysis of re-analysis of some of the Apollo era data and other landed assets is of high interest to perform the calibration of predictive algorithms and simulations tools of regolith transport and interactions with systems.</p> <p>The present work is organized in two parts: in the first part, we present a modelling study of two experiments included in the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP): the Lunar Ejecta and Meteoroids Experiment (LEAM), which experienced failures linked to thermal control and the Dust Detector Experiment (DDE) which could measure solar cells performance variations due to dust coverage.</p> <p>In the second part, we present simulation results for the contamination of the Imaging System accommodated on the PROSPECT experiment that will be embarked on the Luna 27 lander, due to land on the Moon in the next couple of years.</p> <p>We will discuss the quality of our predictions, the uncertainties inherent to the measurements, and the way forward in terms of better representation of lunar dust transport and interactions processes through models.</p>

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