1. Human Exploration of Cis-Lunar Space via Assets Tele-Operated from EML2 (HECATE)
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Di Carlo, Marilena, Barbera, Daniele, Conte, Davide, Mintus, Agata, Romero Martin, Juan Manuel, Budzyn, Dorota, Teofili, Lorenzo, Grys, Szymon, Jamieson, Jonathan, Hay, Craig, Lund, Thomas, Ikeda, Nauromi, Volpe, Renato, and Fleming, Douglas
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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.  
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- 2016
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