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Investigation and Analysis into Establishing a Cislunar PNT
System and Performing a Soft Landing on the Lunar Surface
Investigation and Analysis into Establishing a Cislunar PNT
System and Performing a Soft Landing on the Lunar Surface
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Ramanathan, Keshav
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Lightsey, E. Glenn
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Abstract
With an expected increase in human activity in and around the lunar environment, Georgia Tech,
along with GTRI, has proposed two projects to get involved in this sector. One project focuses on
Cislunar PNT, which attempts to establish a satellite architecture for PNT in the Cislunar environment.
The other project is Lunar ISRU, which desires to soft land a spacecraft on the lunar surface to perform
energy capture resource utilization. For an initial phase I study, the Space Systems Design Laboratory
(SSDL) team investigated currently proposed requirements and architectures from literature for a
Cislunar PNT architecture. Additionally, analysis was performed to simulate a transfer from a NRHO
orbit to the lunar surface through an intermediate low lunar parking orbit for Lunar ISRU. From this
research, the goal for a more detailed analysis is to create a navigation algorithm simulation package
to apply to the chosen system architecture for Cislunar PNT and achieve an optimal and efficient
landing for the Lunar ISRU spacecraft on the Moon’s surface
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Date Issued
2022-05-01
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