Science Exploration of the Moon with the European Space Agency SMART-1 Mission

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998lpico.957....7f&link_type=abstract

Origin of the Earth and Moon, Proceedings of the Conference held 1-3 December, 1998 in Monterey, California. LPI Contribution N

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Moon, Lunar Spacecraft, Lunar Topography, Selenology, Spacecraft Instruments, Measuring Instruments, Cosmochemistry, European Space Agency, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solar Propulsion

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SMART-1, with a planned launch date of 2001, will be the first Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology of the ESA Scientific Programme Horizons 2000. The mission is dedicated to the testing of new technologies for preparing future cornerstone missions, using solar electrical propulsion in deep space. The mission operational lifetime contains periods for cruise phase and an orbital phase around the Moon. The SMART-1 spacecraft launch mass is 350 kg. Two solar-electric propulsion systems are being considered: (1) stationary plasma thrusters (e.g., PPS-1350), which provide high thrust (70 mN) and medium specific impulse (1600 s), and (2) ion thrusters (e.g., PIT-10, UK-10), which provide low thrust (20 mN) and high specific impulse (3000 s). The SMART-1 mission will be placed in orbit around the Moon using solar-electric propulsion. The total mass of the payload will be between 10 and 25 kg, depending on the choice of thruster and the exact mission scenario. Observations can also be carried out during the cruise phase of the mission. We summarize here some science goals (and the type of instruments which could address them) on SMART-1

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