A cosmic dust detection suite for the deep space Gateway |
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Author: | Wozniakiewicz, P.J.1; Bridges, J.2; Burchell, M.J.1; |
Organizations: |
1Centre for Planetary Science and Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, Univ. Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NH, United Kingdom 2Space Research Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom 3ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, PO Box 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, the Netherlands
4Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS), National Institute for AstroPhysics (INAF), via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
5Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2BP, United Kingdom 6Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany 7Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 8University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, Finland 9Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme Raumfahrtzentrum Baden Württemberg, Pfaffenwaldring 29, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 10Klaus-Tschira-Labor für Kosmochemie, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 11ETH Zürich, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Wolfgang-Paulistrasse-27, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.3 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021070240959 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-07-02 |
Description: |
AbstractThe decade of the 2020s promises to be when humanity returns to space beyond Earth orbit, with several nations trying to place astronauts on the Moon, before going further into deep space. As part of such a programme, NASA and partner organisations, propose to build a Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit by the mid-2020s. This would be visited regularly and offer a platform for science as well as for human activity. Payloads that can be mounted externally on the Gateway offer the chance to, amongst other scientific goals, monitor and observe the dust flux in the vicinity of the Moon. This paper looks at relevant technologies to measure dust which will impact the exposed surface at high speed. Flux estimates and a model payload of detectors are described. It is predicted that the flux is sufficient to permit studies of cometary vs. asteroidal dust and their composition, and to sample interstellar dust streams. This may also be the last opportunity to measure the natural dust flux near the Moon before the current, relatively pristine environment, is contaminated by debris, as humanity’s interest in the Moon generates increased activity in that vicinity in coming decades. see all
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Series: |
Advances in space research |
ISSN: | 0273-1177 |
ISSN-E: | 1879-1948 |
ISSN-L: | 0273-1177 |
Volume: | 68 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 85 - 104 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.asr.2021.04.002 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.04.002 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
115 Astronomy and space science |
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Funding: |
We wish to thank ESA for supporting this work with a grant to organise a topical working team on this topic. MJB, PJW, MvG, JCB and LJH acknowledge support from STFC. VJS received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°851544. |
Copyright information: |
© 2021 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |