Positioning, Navigation and Timing for Planetary Exploration and Colonization: to the Moon and Beyond

Authors

  • Marco Lisi Independent Consultant Aerospace & Defence

Keywords:

Positioning, navigation, timing, GNSS, Moon, infrastructure, network, communication, IoT, 5G

Abstract

With the Artemis program, NASA plans to collaborate with commercial and international partners to land in 2024 human beings on the Moon and then to establish a permanent "base camp” by the end of the
decade.
Challenges ahead are numerous: the Moon "base camp” will have to meet very stringent requirements in terms of operations, logistics, and safety of life; moreover, a permanent base on the Moon will have to be affordable and sustainable, i.e., its cost will need to be assessed over its life-cycle, under a long term technical, economic, and political perspective.

The exploration of the Moon with human and robotic missions and its colonization, through the establishment of a permanent base, will require many vital supporting infrastructures, such as communication networks and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems.

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Published

2020-09-14

How to Cite

Positioning, Navigation and Timing for Planetary Exploration and Colonization: to the Moon and Beyond. (2020). GEOmedia, 24(3). https://ojs.mediageo.it/index.php/GEOmedia/article/view/1728

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