These are candidate topics for discussion and input from the broader community.
- What do we want to know and how do we find out?
- What are the key questions to be answered? Scientific and resource related.
- What hypotheses can be tested at the lunar surface to answer these questions?
- What measurements could be applied to help formulate or test these hypotheses and support landing site selection for surface missions?
- From orbit
- From the lunar surface
- Mobility
- Drilling and sampling
- PSR access
- With sample return
- What other science questions can be addressed at the poles and how does this affect landing site priority?
- Which are the most significant regions of interest for making measurements?
- Under which capability assumptions?
- How can we lower the cost?
- Are there low cost innovative approaches that could be considered? (e.g. impactors, penetrators, cubesats, S/C end of life)
- How can the costs of access be reduced? E.g.
- Ride share
- Procuring key mission elements as commercial services
- Using smallsat and nanosat technologies
- Utilising common infrastructure/mission elements
- Utilising existing assets
- What if any new technologies / capabilities areĀ needed?
- How can we coordinate?
- Which is a better coordination approach to making measurements with several surface missions
- All within a common region of interest?
- Each to a different region of interest?
- How can common measurements and calibration standards etc. be utilised between missions to allow comparison of results and add value to individual data sets?
- What standards can be applied and what benefits would they bring? E.g.
- Interfaces
- propellants
- Which is a better coordination approach to making measurements with several surface missions
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