External Environments
External Environments
Testing at Lunar Analog Sites
- Advisement of right locations to perform analog testing
- POC: Trevor Graff
Testing at Lunar Analog Sites- historic training locations 1963-1972
Aquatic Environments
- e.g. NEEMO - NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations
- POC: Marc Reagan
The International Space Station
- The ISS provides the ability to test experiments and concepts that require long duration exposure to microgravity.
- Note that beyond the Lunar surface, other Artemis assets will be in microgravity environments.
- Microgravity research can also serve as a bound for gravity conditions. By performing studies in 1g and in microgravity, we can bound problems that may be exposed to 1/6 g
- POC: Kristen John
ISS Hermes Regolith Facility- microgravity testing
ISS Hermes Regolith Facility
- Hermes ISS Microgravity Regolith Facility
- On-orbit now
- Open to new users
- Quick turnaround for flying payloads to ISS.
- Up to four experiments each the size of a can of tennis balls.
- Each contains regolith or simulants.
- Each can contain up to 7 components or tools.
- Vacuum in experiments
- Near real time data downlink
- Imagery of experiments
- Commanding and control of experiments performed by user
- POC: Kristen John
ISS Centrifuge
ISS Centrifuge
NASA Flight Opportunities
- Suborbital Flights
- Parabolic Flights
- POC: HQ-STMD-SpaceTech-REDDI@mail.nasa.gov
NASA Flight Opportunities- suborbital flights
The Moon
- VIPER going to the Lunar South Pole in 2023.
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CLPS payloads going to the Moon in the next few years.
- Electrodynamic Dust Shield
- Lunar Surface Patch Plate Experiment
- SCALPSS Stereo Descent Imager (2021)
- HLS to land humans on the Moon in 2024.
- Sustained presence on the Moon by 2028.
- Every mission to the Moon will teach us more about Lunar dust mitigation.