Design Reference Mission (DRM) evaluations were performed for The Regolith & Environment Science, and Oxygen & Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) project to determine future flight mission feasibility and understand potential mission environment impacts on hardware requirements, science/resource assessment objectives, and mission planning. DRM version 2.2 (DRM 2.2) is presented for a notional flight of the RESOLVE payload for lunar resource ground truth and utilization (Figure 1) (1). The rover/payload deploys on a 10 day surface mission to the Cabeus crater near the lunar south pole in May of 2016. A drill, four primary science instruments, and a high temperature chemical reactor will acquire and characterize water and other volatiles in the near sub-surface, and perform demonstrations of In-Situ Re-source Utilization (ISRU). DRM 2.2 is a reference point, and will be periodically revised to accommodate and incorporate changes to project approach or implementation, and to explore mission alternatives such as landing site or opportunity.


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    Title :

    RESOLVE Mission Architecture for Lunar Resource Prospecting and Utilization


    Contributors:
    J. A. George (author) / G. W. Mattes (author) / K. N. Rogers (author) / D. F. Magruder (author) / A. J. Paz (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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