Two design options were explored to address the requirement to provide lunar piloted missions with continuous communications for outpost and sortie missions. Two unique orbits were assessed, along with the appropriate spacecraft (S/C) to address these requirements. Both constellations (with only two S/C each) provide full time coverage (24 hr/7 d) for a south polar base and also provide continuous 7 day coverage for sorties for specified sites and periodic windows. Thus a two-satellite system can provide full coverage for sorties for selected windows of opportunity without reconfiguring the constellation.


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    Title :

    COMPASS Final Report: Lunar Network Satellite-High Rate (LNS-HR)


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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