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Human Exploration of Cis-Lunar Space via Assets Tele-Operated from EML2 (HECATE)
- Source :
- Acta Futura
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Zenodo, 2016.
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Abstract
- 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. &nbsp
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Futura
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7b49538c6f7679580d2948998adab961
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.202192