Print Email Facebook Twitter LUMIO: achieving autonomous operations for Lunar exploration with a CubeSat Title LUMIO: achieving autonomous operations for Lunar exploration with a CubeSat Author Speretta, S. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Cervone, A. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Sundaramoorthy, P.P. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) Noomen, R. (TU Delft Astrodynamics & Space Missions) Mestry, S.S. (TU Delft Space Systems Egineering) do Carmo Cipriano, Ana (Student TU Delft) Date 2018 Abstract The Lunar Meteoroid Impacts Observer (LUMIO) is one of the four projects selected within ESA’s SysNova competition to develop a small satellite for scientific and technology demonstration purposes to be deployed by a mother ship around the Moon. The mission utilizes a 12U form-factor CubeSat which carries the LUMIO-Cam, an optical instrument capable of detecting light flashes in the visible spectrum to continuously monitor and process the meteoroids impacts. In this paper, we will describe the mission concept and focus on the performance of a novel navigation concept using Moon images taken as byproduct of the LUMIO-Cam operations. This new approach will considerably limit the operations burden on ground, aiming at autonomous orbit-attitude navigation and control. Furthermore, an efficient and autonomous strategy for collection, processing, categorization, and storage of payload data is also described to cope with the limited contact time and downlink bandwidth. Since all communications have to go via a Lunar Orbiter (mothership), all commands and telemetry/data will have to be forwarded to/from the mother ship. This will prevent quasi-real time operations and will be the first time for CubeSats as they have never flown so far from Earth. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5b0ec031-8e10-473f-ae37-859b9ac39a02 Embargo date 2021-11-08 Source SpaceOps - 15th International Conference on Space Operations, Marseille, France, May 2018 Event SpaceOps 2018: 15th International Conference on Space Operations, 2018-05-28 → 2018-06-01, Marseille, France Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 S. Speretta, A. Cervone, P.P. Sundaramoorthy, R. Noomen, S.S. Mestry, Ana do Carmo Cipriano, More Authors Files PDF Ref_4_.pdf 3.46 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5b0ec031-8e10-473f-ae37-859b9ac39a02/datastream/OBJ/view