Planetary exploration, Horizon 2061- report on Pillar 4: Infrastructures and services for planetary exploration
Abstract
"Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061" is a long-term foresight exercise initially proposed by the Air and Space Academy and led by scientists, engineers and technology experts heavily involved in planetary sciences and in the space exploration of the Solar System. This exercise involved three successive steps designed to progressively build what we called the four "pillars" of Planetary Exploration: 1. our major scientific questions on planetary systems; 2. the different types of space missions that we need to fly to address these questions; 3. the key technologies we need to master to make these missions flyable; 4. the ground-based and space-based infrastructures needed in support to these missions. This talk will report to the COSPAR scientific assembly delegates the main results concerning the fourth pillar, which deals with the infrastructures and services that will be needed to fly by 2061 the set of representative planetary exploration missions identified as components of Pillar 2. It will briefly review the following themes of infrastructures and services for the future: A- Solar system space weather B- Communications and navigation infrastructures C- Overall Ground/Space infrastructures for sample collection and return, sample analysis, contamination control, sample curation and analysis, planetary and Earth protection. D- Future data systems: from data collection to the scientific end-user and to the public. E- Earth-Moon system gateways: infrastructures for access to Moon surface and to farther destinations. F- Future Moon and Mars research outposts
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E.261F