Activity addresses the necessity of developing a competitive European Sep

The space mission development process tends to show several commonalities across projects. Indeed, systems often use the same generic set of technologies, with similar assumptions and requirements. The use of a Digital Assistant would be able to recognise such commonalities and propose suggestions during the early phase of system development based on previous projects. This would speed the definition stages, while also allowing to re-use potential lessons learned and hopefully to avoid simple mistakes/omissions.

Background and justification:

In 50 years of Space Exploration, the total distance covered by rovers on Mars and the Moon is about 200km, an average of 4km per year. Future exploration rovers are expected to travel one or two orders of magnitude more.This requires designing rovers that are intrinsically faster than what has been built so far.

Future human space exploration, including missions to the Moon and beyond, will require a paradigm shift in the current approach to in-flight exercise countermeasures, particularly when it comes to exercise devices (e.g. CEVIS, T2, ARED to name a few). Exploration vehicles will be significantly smaller, requiring exercise hardware to be smaller, lighter and less complex than current devices, and ideally multi-functional, capable of stressing the musculoskeletal (MSK) system, the cardiovascular (CV) system and other associated system (e.g. neuro-vestibular - NV).

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The LUnar Geology Orbiter (LUGO) is a scientific and exploratory mission to study the thermal evolution of the Moon by characterizing Irregular Mare Patches, as well as lunar lava tubes. This will be accomplished by four payloads, a ground penetrating radar, a hyperspectral camera, LiDAR and narrow angle camera, which will produce images at a greater resolution than currently available. The scientific study will provide confirmation or refutation of current knowledge about the thermal evolution of the Moon.