Lunar science with affordable small spacecraft technologies: MoonLITE and Moonraker

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 368-377

  Gao, Yang ^a   Phipps, Andy ^b   Taylor, Mark ^b   Crawford, Ian A ^d   Ball, Andrew J ^e   Wilson, Lionel ^f   Parker, Dave ^c   Sweeting, Martin ^a,b   da Silva Curiel, Alex ^b   Davies, Phil ^b   Baker, Adam ^b   Pike, W Thomas ^g   Smith, Alan ^h   Gowen, Rob ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c National Space Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lunar science; Mission definition; Spacecraft design; The moon

Indexed keywords

MOON BASES; RISK ANALYSIS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

LUNAR SCIENCE; SPACECRAFT DESIGN;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 39549116946     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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