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Joshua J. R. Critchley-Marrows, Xiaofeng Wu, Yosuke Kawabata and Shinichi Nakasuka
In recent years, the number of expected missions to the Moon has increased significantly. With limited terrestrial-based infrastructure to support this number of missions, as well as restricted visibility over intended mission areas, there is a need for ...
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Andris Slavinskis, Mario F. Palos, Janis Dalbins, Pekka Janhunen, Martin Tajmar, Nickolay Ivchenko, Agnes Rohtsalu, Aldo Micciani, Nicola Orsini, Karl Mattias Moor, Sergei Kuzmin, Marcis Bleiders, Marcis Donerblics, Ikechukwu Ofodile, Johan Kütt, Tõnis Eenmäe, Viljo Allik, Jaan Viru, Pätris Halapuu, Katriin Kristmann, Janis Sate, Endija Briede, Marius Anger, Katarina Aas, Gustavs Plonis, Hans Teras, Kristo Allaje, Andris Vaivads, Lorenzo Niccolai, Marco Bassetto, Giovanni Mengali, Petri Toivanen, Iaroslav Iakubivskyi, Mihkel Pajusalu and Antti TammaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
The electric solar wind sail, or E-sail, is a propellantless interplanetary propulsion system concept. By deflecting solar wind particles off their original course, it can generate a propulsive effect with nothing more than an electric charge. The high-v...
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Naser T. Burahmah and Lawrence H. Heilbronn
As humanity prepares for extended lunar exploration, understanding the radiation environment on the Moon is important for astronaut safety. This study utilized the Particle and Heavy-Ion Transport code System (PHITS), a stochastic Monte Carlo-based radia...
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Xu Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Mingzhong Gao, Yufeng Wen and Yaohui Wang
The Moon is the closest extraterrestrial celestial body to the Earth. Sampling and analysis of lunar regolith or rocks can pave the way for the development and utilization of lunar resources. The acquisition of lunar regolith samples with original strati...
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David W. Kim
Current scientific developments have reached the stage where human aspirations of space exploration are not science fiction but a reality involving travelling to the Earth?s orbit, the Moon and Mars. In the second half of the twentieth century, internati...
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Jianlin Shi, Jinbo Wang, Linfeng Su, Zhenwei Ma and Hongbo Chen
The mission of spacecraft usually faces the problem of an unknown deep space environment, limited long-distance communication and complex environmental dynamics, which brings new challenges to the intelligence level and real-time performance of spacecraf...
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Fahad A. Zaman, Lawrence W. Townsend, Wouter C. de Wet and Naser T. Burahmah
Understanding the radiation environment near the lunar surface is a key step towards planning for future missions to the Moon. However, the complex variety of energies and particle types constituting the space radiation environment makes the process of r...
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Martin D. Clark, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Matthew S. Huber, Francois Fourie and Chris Harris
Better characterization features borne from long-term crustal modification processes is essential for understanding the dynamics of large basin-forming impact structures on Earth. Within the deeply eroded 2.02 Ga Vredefort Impact Structure in South Afric...
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Vera Assis Fernandes
The forward planning of the return of Humans to the lunar surface as envisioned by different national and collaborative space agencies requires consideration of the fragility and pristine nature of the lunar surface. Current international treaties are ou...
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Anatoly Pavlov, Vladimir Cheptsov, Denis Tsurkov, Vladimir Lomasov, Dmitry Frolov and Gennady Vasiliev
We briefly present preliminary results of our study of the radioresistant bacteria in a low temperature and pressure and high-radiation environment and hypothesize the ability of microorganisms to survive extraterrestrial high-radiation environments, suc...
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