Lunar regolith characterization for simulant design and evaluation using figure of merit algorithms

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schrader, Christian M ^a   Rickman, Douglas L ^a   Mclemore, Carole A ^a   Fikes, John C ^a   Stoeser, Douglas B ^b   Wentworth, Susan J ^c   McKay, David S ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPACE PLATFORMS;

ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); FIGURE OF MERITS; JOHNSON SPACE CENTER; MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 78549269825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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