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EXOMOON – A Discovery And Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion Concept

David Lawrence, Richard Elphic, Jonathan Weinberg, Gregory Delory, Richard Dissly, Jonathan Evanyo, Dana Crider, Paul Lucey, Terrence W. Fong, Richard Vondrak, Kris Zacny, and Irene Yachbes
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009

Abstract

This paper describes a Discovery class landed mission concept for the in-situ investigation of volatiles in the lunar polar cold traps. This mission is enabled by the use of the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generators (ASRG), currently in development by NASA

BibTeX

@conference{Lawrence-2009-10170,
author = {David Lawrence and Richard Elphic and Jonathan Weinberg and Gregory Delory and Richard Dissly and Jonathan Evanyo and Dana Crider and Paul Lucey and Terrence W. Fong and Richard Vondrak and Kris Zacny and Irene Yachbes},
title = {EXOMOON - A Discovery And Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion Concept},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09)},
year = {2009},
month = {March},
keywords = {lunar exploration, planetary exploration, Moon},
}