Session
Technical Session III: New Missions II
Abstract
The Lunar Educator is a Phase A mission definition and development activity being undertaken by the University of Colorado's Space Grant Consortium. The scientific objectives of the mission are to provide greater than 50 meter resolution visual images of the Lunar polar regions from various lighting angles in order to discover permanently shadowed craters, and, if spacecraft lifetime allows, to digitally map the entire lunar surface. Of equal importance is the program's educational objective to use this mission as a platform to educate and excite people of all ages in math, science, engineering, and space exploration. The Lunar Educator program intends to accomplish these goals with a simple, low cost spacecraft built and operated entirely by undergraduate and graduate level students.
Small Spacecraft Conceptual Design for a Lunar Polar Mapping/Educational Spacecraft
The Lunar Educator is a Phase A mission definition and development activity being undertaken by the University of Colorado's Space Grant Consortium. The scientific objectives of the mission are to provide greater than 50 meter resolution visual images of the Lunar polar regions from various lighting angles in order to discover permanently shadowed craters, and, if spacecraft lifetime allows, to digitally map the entire lunar surface. Of equal importance is the program's educational objective to use this mission as a platform to educate and excite people of all ages in math, science, engineering, and space exploration. The Lunar Educator program intends to accomplish these goals with a simple, low cost spacecraft built and operated entirely by undergraduate and graduate level students.
