Development of a space-qualified mast system for future lunar rover missions
Nicola Giancarlo Scarcia
Development of a space-qualified mast system for future lunar rover missions.
Rel. Alessandro Fasana. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Meccanica, 2020
Abstract
LUVMI-X (LUnar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation - eXtended) is a lightweight, low-cost and innovative lunar rover that is being developed on the base of the European Commission through its Horizon 2020 program. The project is coordinated by Space Applications Services with the collaboration of the Technical University of Munich, the Open University, OHB System and Dynamic Imaging Analytics. LUVMI-X is developed on the base of LUVMI, its predecessor which was sucessfully validated up to TRL 5. Its mission is to do in-situ analysis of water, regolith and other volatiles in order to support the establishment of a lunar economy and future human missions and to explore the (PSR) Permanently Shadowed Regions located in the south pole of the Moon.
To achieve this goals there are several instruments on the rover like: a volatiles sampler, a volatiles analyzer, a camera system composed by a NavCam, a Stereobench, a SurfCam, a LIBS and an illumination system
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