MASCOT2 – A small body lander to investigate the interior of 65803 Didymos′ moon in the frame of the AIDA/AIM mission

The CONSERT operations planning process for the Rosetta mission

“…Currently, the CONSERT team is involved in the development of two new radars for the observation of Solar System small bodies. A Low Frequency Radar 18,19,20 (LFR) is a direct heritage from CONSERT. Its new design will relax significantly the operational constraints due to clock synchronization between the lander and orbiter units.…”

Paths not taken – The Gossamer roadmap’s other options

“…Extensive re-use of avionics and software became an increasingly more important and likely aspect as the design of GOSSAMER-1 progressed in maturity; many opportunities for re-use were not anticipated in the conceptual stage but became obvious in practical work. Taking into account the overlapping test and integration campaigns of GOSSAMER-1 to -3 in the Roadmap scenario as well as an end-to-end concurrent engineering-and-AIV approach initiated by a team and institute with fresh prior experience in it (see Lange et al, 2015aLange et al, , 2018aLange et al, ,b, 2019, ample short-term adhoc direct (or 'tactical') 4 re-use could also have been expected which is not possible to the same extent in completely sequential roadmaps and rigidly 'phased' projects, and probably impossible when contractors change from flight to flight or phase to phase.…”

A radar package for asteroid subsurface investigations: Implications of implementing and integration into the MASCOT nanoscale landing platform from science requirements to baseline design

“…In order to integrate a radar instrument into the lander system, originally envisaged for short lifetime and mobile scouting on an asteroid surface, several changes are incorporated to cope with the measurement and instrument requirements of the radar package. Table 2 shows a summary of the main differences and commonalities between the original MASCOT and the proposed MASCOT2 variant of the lander platform [39,40]. The LFR E-Box ( Figure 13) is designed in order to be compatible with the MASCOT2 lander platform's available volume.…”