Space plasma physics science opportunities for the lunar orbital platform - Gateway

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Astronomy and Space Sciences

Arnaud Trouche¹  Julien Forest¹  Štěpán Štverák²  André Laurens³  Lubomír Přech⁴  James Carpenter⁵  Matt G. G. T. Taylor⁵  Josef Winter⁵  Jonathan Eastwood⁶  Philippe Garnier⁷  Pierre Devoto⁷  Iannis Dandouras⁷  Elisabetta De Angelis⁸  Anna Milillo⁸  Benjamin Grison⁹  François Leblanc^1,10  Jean-Yves Chaufray^1,10  Elias Roussos^1,11  Graziella Branduardi-Raymont^1,12  Jean-Charles Mateo-Vélez^1,13  Sébastien L. G. Hess^1,13  Ruth A. Bamford^1,14  Johan De Keyser^1,15  Marius Echim^1,16  David Hercik^1,17  Helmut Lammer^1,18  Rumi Nakamura^1,18  Yoshifumi Futaana^1,19  Dragos Constantinescu^2,20 

[1] Artenum, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France;Astronomical Institute, CAS, Prague, Czechia;Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prague, Czechia;CNES, Toulouse, France;Charles University, Prague, Czechia;ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands;Imperial College, London, United Kingdom;Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France;Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, INAF, Rome, Italy;Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prague, Czechia;LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), IPSL, Paris, France;Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany;Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL, Dorking, United Kingdom;ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, France;RAL Space, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium;Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium;Institute of Space Science, Măgurele, Romania;Scibit, Liberec, Czechia;Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria;Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden;TU-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;

关键词: Moon;    deep space;    space plasmas;    heliophysics;    space weather;    gateway;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fspas.2023.1120302

 received in 2022-12-09, accepted in 2023-02-09,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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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Copyright © 2023 Dandouras, Taylor, De Keyser, Futaana, Bamford, Branduardi-Raymont, Chaufray, Constantinescu, De Angelis, Devoto, Eastwood, Echim, Garnier, Grison, Hercik, Lammer, Laurens, Leblanc, Milillo, Nakamura, Přech, Roussos, Štverák, Forest, Trouche, Hess, Mateo-Vélez, Carpenter and Winter.