TY - JOUR
T1 - Human exploration of cis-lunar space via assets tele-operated from EML2 (HECATE)
AU - Di Carlo, Marilena
AU - Barbera, Daniele
AU - Conte, Davide
AU - Mintus, Agata
AU - Romero Martin, Juan Manuel
AU - Budzyn, Dorota
AU - Teofili, Lorenzo
AU - Grys, Szymon
AU - Jamieson, Jonathan
AU - Hay, Craig
AU - Lund, Thomas
AU - Ikeda, Nauromi
AU - Volpe, Renato
AU - Fleming, Douglas
PY - 2016/12/15
Y1 - 2016/12/15
N2 - This paper presents the preliminary design of the international space mission HECATE (Human Exploration of Cis-lunar space via Assets Tele-operated from EML-2), aimed at exploring the far side of the Moon via tele-robotic activities during the 2020s. The exploration is realized by astronauts from HOPE (Human Orbiting Protected Environment), a space habitat in a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2, a critical staging location for future robotic and human deep space missions. Inside the habitat, astronauts have access to tele-robotic hardware and instruments, used to tele-operate rovers and scientific equipment on the surface of the Moon. Plans to resupply and maintain HOPE for future missions, using a solar electric tug, are given. Ultimately, HOPE represents an energetically favorable intermediate locations for missions to Mars, Near-Earth Asteroids, and beyond.
AB - This paper presents the preliminary design of the international space mission HECATE (Human Exploration of Cis-lunar space via Assets Tele-operated from EML-2), aimed at exploring the far side of the Moon via tele-robotic activities during the 2020s. The exploration is realized by astronauts from HOPE (Human Orbiting Protected Environment), a space habitat in a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 2, a critical staging location for future robotic and human deep space missions. Inside the habitat, astronauts have access to tele-robotic hardware and instruments, used to tele-operate rovers and scientific equipment on the surface of the Moon. Plans to resupply and maintain HOPE for future missions, using a solar electric tug, are given. Ultimately, HOPE represents an energetically favorable intermediate locations for missions to Mars, Near-Earth Asteroids, and beyond.
KW - HECATE
KW - tele-robotic activities
KW - space habitat
UR - https://zenodo.org/record/202747#.WFfJkH0TDiu
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.202192
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.202192
M3 - Article
VL - 2016
SP - 75
EP - 89
JO - Acta Futura
JF - Acta Futura
IS - 10
ER -