NASA has set the ambitious goal of establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon. Diverse commercial and international partners are engaged in this effort to catalyze scientific discovery, lunar resource utilization and economic development on both the Earth and at the Moon. Lunar development will serve as a critical proving ground for deeper exploration into the solar system. Space communications and navigation infrastructure will play an integral part in realizing this goal. This paper provides a high-level description of an extensible and scalable lunar communications and navigation architecture, known as LunaNet. LunaNet is a services network to enable lunar operations. Three LunaNet service types are defined: networking services, position, navigation and timing services, and science utilization services. The LunaNet architecture encompasses a wide variety of topology implementations, including surface and orbiting provider nodes. In this paper several systems engineering considerations within the service architecture are highlighted. Additionally, several alternative LunaNet instantiations are presented. Extensibility of the LunaNet architecture to the solar system internet is discussed.


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    Titel :

    LunaNet: A Flexible and Extensible Lunar Exploration Communication and Navigation Infrastructure


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2020 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-03-09


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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