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Meteoroids Beyond the Earth's Atmosphere: An Outlook on Future Science Opportunities Enabled by Small Satellites
Presented by:
Eleanor Sansom
Hadrien Devillepoix
Curtin University
What is the meteoroid environment like around Mars? This question has been tackled by various missions at Mars, but so far no meteoroid impact event has conclusively been witnessed. This is because detecting impact events was a stretch goal or side experiment on these missions, hence the instruments were not optimised for such detections. Cubesats open up a new paradigm where it is possible to design a mission around a single science question, with a single payload. Cubesats, particularly within the framework of NASA's Artemis exploration program, have the potential to expand horizons for meteoroid science on planetary bodies other than the Earth (Moon, Mars, etc.). In this talk I want to introduce and generate discussions about future meteoroid science opportunities with cubesats.
Category:
Space missions
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