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Preliminary Lunar Surface SSA Architecture Optimization for the Observabilty of Cislunar and Lunar Resident Space Objects

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-8-2024

Abstract

With the extreme cost and rapid expansion of national, commercial, and international missions to cislunar space, proper tracking and conjunction-awareness by an efficient system is increasingly important. Although not the sole solution to cislunar space situational awareness (SSA), the lunar surface provides unique advantages to augment the observation of cislunar space. To prioritize efficiency, a framework is developed to create a heuristically optimized optical lunar-based SSA system. A sample implementation of this framework resulted in a system that is designed in response to Sun occlusion with a focus on three distinct cislunar regions of interest. This framework has provided a foundation to begin building more complex cost and sensor models to create lunar-based SSA systems of increasing fidelity and utility. A case-study implementation of this framework resulted in a system that was responsive to the environment that prioritized both overall coverage and consistency of coverage.

Comments

Session: Space Situational Awareness II

Source Publication

AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum

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