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Integrating Robotic

& Human Exploration

& Human Exploration

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Huntsville, Alabama

R. G. Clinton, Jr., Ph.D.

Deputy Manager, Science & Technology Office

October 2011

R. G. Clinton, Jr., Ph.D.

Deputy Manager, Science & Technology Office

October 2011

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Mission Scenario: Asteroid Next

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Mission Scenario: Moon Next

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Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project (LMMP)

Product Summary

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•Global, Regional and Local Scale

Maps

-Visible Imagery Base Maps

-Topographic Maps

•Surface Digital Elevation Models

•Hazard Assessment Maps

•Elevation Contour Maps

-Lighting Maps

-Temperature Maps

-Gravity Models

-Resource Maps

-Other

•Integrated Surface

Visualization

-Web-based & Desktop Clients

-Format/Interface Standards

-Extensibility

•To other data products

and other planetary bodies

LOLA

LOLA Polar

Apollo

PanCam

LROC NAC

ClementineApollo Metric Cam

Apollo Metric Cam

Clementine / LO

Diviner

LROC WAC

Diviner

Lunar Mapper

Portal

LROC NAC

LROC NAC

LROC NAC

Mini-RF

Lunar

Prospector

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Space Climate

Minimize Risk

Space Weather

Manage Residual Risk

•Ionosphere/Plasma/

Thermosphere

•Ionization Radiation

•Interplanetary space

•Extraterrestrial surfaces

•Spacecraft Charging

•Micrometeoroids*

•Orbital Debris*

•Testing

-Ground

-Space based

-Extraterrestrial

•Flight Experiments

•Data mining, Integration,

and correlation

•EEE Parts assessment*

•Solar and Heliospheric

variability

-CMEs & Flares

•Magnetospheric dynamics

-Magnetic Storms

-Radiation Belt

•Ionospheric Variability

-Scintillation

-Auroral disturbances

Engineering Effects

Prediction & Operations

Mitigation Strategies

& Avoidance

Characterization

and Modeling

•Passive Shielding

•Threat Removal

-Orbital Debris detection

and Removal

•Existing Discipline Offices within NASA

Space Environments and Spacecraft Effects

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MSFC is engaged in both small

and large sail development

20-m ground demo (2005)

~40-m space demo

planned (L’Garde)

3.5-m NanoSail-D (2010)

Potential Mission Applications

•Orbital Debris Mitigation

•Small Satellite Propulsion

Potential Mission Applications

•Earth Pole Observation

•Heliophysics

•NEO rendezvous and reconnaissance

•Interstellar Precursors

Deploytech

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Solar Sail Propulsion

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•Challenge is to

develop a robot that

has autonomous

capability to locate

and retrieve specific

sample types from

various locations over

a wide and varied

terrain and return

those samples to a

designated zone

•Challenge is

conducted by

Worcester

Polytechnic Institute

Total Prize Purse is $1.5M

Challenge rules are at http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge

Centennial Challenges –Sample Return Robot

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Robotic Lander Development Project:

Flight Design Validation through Rigorous Prototype and Testing

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Robotic Lander Prototype Test Flights

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