US military backs new lunar mission

Activity Planning for a Lunar Orbital Mission

ligence technology to address the challenging problem of activity planning for a lunar orbital NASA mission: the Lunar Atmospheric and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). AI technology can help solve a given problem through a software system that automates some aspect of the problemsolving process. However, often, a significant aspect of the benefit an AI scientist can provide is in terms of def...

Lunar interior properties from the GRAIL mission

The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has sampled lunar gravity with unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The lunar GM, the product of the gravitational constant G and the massM, is very well determined. However, uncertainties in the mass and mean density, 3345.56±0.40 kg/m, are limited by the accuracy of G. Values of the spherical harmonic degree-2 gravity coefficients...

Time Optimal Closed - Loop Fuzzy - Control Strategy for Nonlinear Lunar Lander Mission

What Lunar Meteorites Tell Us about the Lunar Highlands Crust

The first meteorite to be found 1 that was eventually (1984) recognized to have originated from the Moon is Yamato 791197 [1]. The find date, November 20, 1979, was four days after the end of the first Conference on the Lunar Highland Crust [2]. Since then, >75 other lunar meteorites have been found, and these meteorites provide information about the lunar highlands that was not known from stud...

Mission Assurance Challenges within the Military Environment

Virtually all modern organizations have embedded information and communication technologies into their core processes as a means to increase operational efficiency, improve decision quality, and reduce operational costs. However, this dependence can place the organizational mission at risk when an incident occurs that compromises a cyber resource critical to the success of the organizational mi...