Meteoroids detection with the LUMIO lunar CubeSat

Topputo, Francesco; Merisio, Gianmario; Franzese, V.; Giordano, Carmine; Massari, Mauro; Pilato, G.; Labate, Demetrio; Cervone, Angelo; Speretta, Stefano; Menicucci, A.; Turan, Erdem; Bertels, E.; Vennekens, J.; Walker, Roger; Koschny, D.

doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115213

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“…For such long time scales, meteorids can present a threat to these instruments. If finally selected, the ESA LUMIO CubeSat mission [19] (currently in Phase B development [20]) will provide statistics of the meteorids reaching the lunar surface. Measures to prevent them should be investigated.…”

Section: (B) Meteoridsmentioning

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Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Schneider,

Kervella,

Labeyrie

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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We look at what astronomy from the Moon might be like over the next few decades. The Moon offers the possibility of installing large telescopes or interferometers with instruments larger than those on orbiting telescopes. We first present examples of ambitious science cases, in particular ideas that cannot be implemented from Earth. After a general review of observational approaches, from photometry to high contrast and high angular resolution imaging, we propose as a first step a 1-metre-class precursor and explore what science can be done with it. We add a proposal to use the Earth–Moon system to test the quantum physics theory. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades (part 2)'.

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Section: (B) Meteoridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Schneider,

Kervella,

Labeyrie

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…CORTO capabilities have also been used to test the limb-based navigation around the Moon for the LUMIO mission [48]. LUMIO is a 12U CubeSat that will orbit in a Halo orbit about the Earth-Moon L2 point and is an ASI/ESA mission.…”

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CORTO: The Celestial Object Rendering TOol at DART Lab

Pugliatti,

Buonagura,

Topputo

2023

Sensors

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The Celestial Object Rendering TOol (CORTO) offers a powerful solution for generating synthetic images of celestial bodies, catering to the needs of space mission design, algorithm development, and validation. Through rendering, noise modeling, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and post-processing functionalities, CORTO creates realistic scenarios. It offers a versatile and comprehensive solution for generating synthetic images of celestial bodies, aiding the development and validation of image processing and navigation algorithms for space missions. This work illustrates its functionalities in detail for the first time. The importance of a robust validation pipeline to test the tool’s accuracy against real mission images using metrics like normalized cross-correlation and structural similarity is also illustrated. CORTO is a valuable asset for advancing space exploration and navigation algorithm development and has already proven effective in various projects, including CubeSat design, lunar missions, and deep learning applications. While the tool currently covers a range of celestial body simulations, mainly focused on minor bodies and the Moon, future enhancements could broaden its capabilities to encompass additional planetary phenomena and environments.

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“…The second case considered is the operative orbit of the LUMIO mission, which is a deep-space CubeSat under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) [34,35]. The scientific objectives of the LUMIO mission are to observe, quantify, and characterize meteoroid impacts on the lunar far-side by detecting their impact flashes, complementing Earth-based observations on the Lunar nearside, to provide global information on the Lunar Meteoroid Environment and contribute to Lunar Situational Awareness.…”

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Application of Pulsar-Based Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats

2023

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This paper investigates the use of pulsar-based navigation for deep-space CubeSats. A novel approach for dealing with the onboard computation of navigational solutions and timekeeping capabilities of a spacecraft in a deep-space cruise is shown, and the related implementation and numerical simulations are discussed. The pulsar’s signal detection, processing, and exploitation are simulated for navigation onboard a spacecraft, thus showing the feasibility of autonomous state estimation in deep space even for miniaturized satellites.

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Meteoroids detection with the LUMIO lunar CubeSat

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

CORTO: The Celestial Object Rendering TOol at DART Lab

Application of Pulsar-Based Navigation for Deep-Space CubeSats

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