TY - CHAP
T1 - LUMIO
T2 - An Autonomous CubeSat for Lunar Exploration
AU - Speretta, Stefano
AU - Cervone, Angelo
AU - Sundaramoorthy, Prem
AU - Noomen, Ron
AU - Mestry, Samiksha
AU - Cipriano, Ana
AU - Topputo, Francesco
AU - Biggs, James
AU - Lizia, Pierluigi Di
AU - Massari, Mauro
AU - Mani, Karthik V.
AU - Dei Tos, Diogene A.
AU - Ceccherini, Simone
AU - Franzese, Vittorio
AU - Ivanov, Anton
AU - Labate, Demetrio
AU - Tommasi, Leonardo
AU - Jochemsen, Arnoud
AU - Gailis, Jānis
AU - Furfaro, Roberto
AU - Reddy Kanupuru, Vishnu V
AU - Vennekens, Johan
AU - Walker, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is one of the four projects selected within ESA’s SysNova competition to develop a small satellite or scientific and technology demonstration purposes to be deployed by a mothership around the Moon. Themission 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 chapter, we will describe the mission concept and focus on the performance of a novel navigation concept using Moon images taken as byproduct of the LUMIOCam 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, all commands and telemetry/data will have to be forwarded to/from the mothership. This will prevent quasi-real-time operations and will be the first time for CubeSats as they have never flown without a direct link to Earth. This chapter was derived from a paper the authors delivered at the SpaceOps 2018 conference.
AB - The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) is one of the four projects selected within ESA’s SysNova competition to develop a small satellite or scientific and technology demonstration purposes to be deployed by a mothership around the Moon. Themission 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 chapter, we will describe the mission concept and focus on the performance of a novel navigation concept using Moon images taken as byproduct of the LUMIOCam 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, all commands and telemetry/data will have to be forwarded to/from the mothership. This will prevent quasi-real-time operations and will be the first time for CubeSats as they have never flown without a direct link to Earth. This chapter was derived from a paper the authors delivered at the SpaceOps 2018 conference.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150538698&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85150538698&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-11536-4_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-11536-4_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85150538698
SN - 9783030115357
SP - 103
EP - 134
BT - Space Operations
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -