The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon
The Lunar Flashlight (LF) mission will send a CubeSat to lunar orbit via NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) test flight. The LF spacecraft will carry a novel instrument to quantify and map water ice harbored in the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar South Pole. The LF instrument, an active mult...
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ftnasajpl:oai:trs.jpl.nasa.gov:2014/48615 2023-05-15T18:22:15+02:00 The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon Wehmeier, Udo Vinckier, Quentin Sellar, R. Glenn Paine, Christopher G. Hayne, Paul O. Bagheri, Mahmood Rais-Zadeh, Mina Forouhar, Siamak Loveland, Jessica Shelton, Jacob 2020-05-26T15:31:43Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2014/48615 en_US eng Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2018 SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, CA, August 19 - 23, 2018 18-4169 http://hdl.handle.net/2014/48615 CubeSat Lunar Flashlight reflectometer laser radiometry remote sensing Preprint 2020 ftnasajpl 2021-12-23T13:14:57Z The Lunar Flashlight (LF) mission will send a CubeSat to lunar orbit via NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) test flight. The LF spacecraft will carry a novel instrument to quantify and map water ice harbored in the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar South Pole. The LF instrument, an active multi-band reflectometer which employs four high power diode lasers in the 1-2 μm infrared band, will measure the reflectance of the lunar surface near water ice absorption peaks. We present the detailed instrument design and system engineering required to deploy this instrument within very demanding CubeSat resource allocations. NASA/JPL Report South pole JPL Technical Report Server South Pole |
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CubeSat Lunar Flashlight reflectometer laser radiometry remote sensing Wehmeier, Udo Vinckier, Quentin Sellar, R. Glenn Paine, Christopher G. Hayne, Paul O. Bagheri, Mahmood Rais-Zadeh, Mina Forouhar, Siamak Loveland, Jessica Shelton, Jacob The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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The Lunar Flashlight (LF) mission will send a CubeSat to lunar orbit via NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) test flight. The LF spacecraft will carry a novel instrument to quantify and map water ice harbored in the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar South Pole. The LF instrument, an active multi-band reflectometer which employs four high power diode lasers in the 1-2 μm infrared band, will measure the reflectance of the lunar surface near water ice absorption peaks. We present the detailed instrument design and system engineering required to deploy this instrument within very demanding CubeSat resource allocations. NASA/JPL |
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Wehmeier, Udo Vinckier, Quentin Sellar, R. Glenn Paine, Christopher G. Hayne, Paul O. Bagheri, Mahmood Rais-Zadeh, Mina Forouhar, Siamak Loveland, Jessica Shelton, Jacob |
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Wehmeier, Udo Vinckier, Quentin Sellar, R. Glenn Paine, Christopher G. Hayne, Paul O. Bagheri, Mahmood Rais-Zadeh, Mina Forouhar, Siamak Loveland, Jessica Shelton, Jacob |
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The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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The Lunar Flashlight CubeSat Instrument: A Compact SWIR Laser Reflectometer to Quantify and Map Water Ice on the Surface of the Moon |
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lunar flashlight cubesat instrument: a compact swir laser reflectometer to quantify and map water ice on the surface of the moon |
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Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2018 |
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