Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences (Mar 2023)
Space plasma physics science opportunities for the lunar orbital platform - Gateway
- Iannis Dandouras,
- Matt G. G. T. Taylor,
- Johan De Keyser,
- Yoshifumi Futaana,
- Ruth A. Bamford,
- Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,
- Jean-Yves Chaufray,
- Dragos Constantinescu,
- Elisabetta De Angelis,
- Pierre Devoto,
- Jonathan Eastwood,
- Marius Echim,
- Marius Echim,
- Philippe Garnier,
- Benjamin Grison,
- David Hercik,
- Helmut Lammer,
- André Laurens,
- François Leblanc,
- Anna Milillo,
- Rumi Nakamura,
- Lubomír Přech,
- Elias Roussos,
- Štěpán Štverák,
- Štěpán Štverák,
- Julien Forest,
- Arnaud Trouche,
- Sébastien L. G. Hess,
- Jean-Charles Mateo-Vélez,
- James Carpenter,
- Josef Winter
Affiliations
- Iannis Dandouras
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France
- Matt G. G. T. Taylor
- ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
- Johan De Keyser
- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
- Yoshifumi Futaana
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
- Ruth A. Bamford
- RAL Space, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Graziella Branduardi-Raymont
- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL, Dorking, United Kingdom
- Jean-Yves Chaufray
- LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), IPSL, Paris, France
- Dragos Constantinescu
- TU-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- Elisabetta De Angelis
- Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, INAF, Rome, Italy
- Pierre Devoto
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France
- Jonathan Eastwood
- 0Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Marius Echim
- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
- Marius Echim
- 1Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania
- Philippe Garnier
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France
- Benjamin Grison
- 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prague, Czechia
- David Hercik
- 3Scibit, Liberec, Czechia
- Helmut Lammer
- 4Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
- André Laurens
- 5CNES, Toulouse, France
- François Leblanc
- LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), IPSL, Paris, France
- Anna Milillo
- Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, INAF, Rome, Italy
- Rumi Nakamura
- 4Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
- Lubomír Přech
- 6Charles University, Prague, Czechia
- Elias Roussos
- 7Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany
- Štěpán Štverák
- 8Astronomical Institute, CAS, Prague, Czechia
- Štěpán Štverák
- 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prague, Czechia
- Julien Forest
- 9Artenum, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France
- Arnaud Trouche
- 9Artenum, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France
- Sébastien L. G. Hess
- 0ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, France
- Jean-Charles Mateo-Vélez
- 0ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, France
- James Carpenter
- ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
- Josef Winter
- ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2023.1120302
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10
Abstract
The Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway (LOP - Gateway, or simply Gateway) is a crewed platform that will be assembled and operated in the vicinity of the Moon by NASA and international partner organizations, including ESA, starting from the mid-2020s. It will offer new opportunities for fundamental and applied scientific research. The Moon is a unique location to study the deep space plasma environment. Moreover, the lunar surface and the surface-bounded exosphere are interacting with this environment, constituting a complex multi-scale interacting system. This paper examines the opportunities provided by externally mounted payloads on the Gateway in the field of space plasma physics, heliophysics and space weather, and also examines the impact of the space environment on an inhabited platform in the vicinity of the Moon. It then presents the conceptual design of a model payload, required to perform these space plasma measurements and observations. It results that the Gateway is very well-suited for space plasma physics research. It allows a series of scientific objectives with a multi-disciplinary dimension to be addressed.
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