Lunar rover user survey

Dear lunar payload developer or lunar rover user,

Thank you for accepting our invitation to the LUVMI-X rover user survey. This survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

The Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation (LUVMI) rover family will provide a smart, low mass, innovative, modular and extendable platform designed to accommodate payloads and provide payload mobility on the Moon. The team at Space Applications Services is currently performing the preliminary design of the LUVMI-X rover, including its modular payload interfaces.

As a part of this effort we are conducting a survey in order to take the constraints of your ideas and payloads into account in the design of the rover. While we cannot guarantee that every preference will be included, your information will allow us to maximize the compatibility of the rover with your payload.

Please fill this questionnaire as many times as you require (once for each of your payloads/ideas). Responses will be accepted until September 21st, 2020.

None of your responses will be considered binding agreements to the LUVMI-X developers. Your answers will be kept confidential and only be used for interface design purposes.

In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact the team at lunarpayloads@spaceapplications.com

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LUVMI-X Rover

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* 1. Name of your payload:

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* 2. Please briefly describe your payload and its function:

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* 3. Please describe the concept of operations (if you would like to provide more details or illustrations, you will be able to in a subsequent question):

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* 4. What landing sites are most interesting to your payload?

Polar

Equatorial

Either type of site

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Do you have a particular site of interest?

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* 6. If known, what is the minimum distance from the lander that your payload needs to operate at?

<100 m from the lander are sufficient

<1 km from the lander are sufficient

>1km from the lander are required

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* 7. What is the estimated mass of your payload (in kg)?

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LUVMI-X Payload Bays

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* 8. LUVMI-X can preliminarily accommodate payloads in 2 payload bays, each with a maximum volume of 3 x 2 x 2 U (or cubesat units). How feasible would it be for your payload or idea to fit inside in volumes multiple of the CubeSat standard and inside one (or two) of these payload bays?

For our purposes a Cubesat unit is a volume of 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm (U).

Very feasible

Feasible (e.g. with some modifications)

Not feasible (please explain)

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* 9. Please indicate which of the following form factors or envelopes is the most likely to encompass your payload:

Form factor 1 (1x1x1)

Form factor 2 (1x1x2)

Form factor 3 (1x2x1)

Form factor 4 (2x1x2)

Form factor 5 (2x2x1)

Form factor 6 (2x3x1)

Form factor 7 (2x2x2)

Form factor 8 (2x3x2)

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* 10. If the envelopes above are not suitable, please provide the dimensions of your payload (in cm):

length [cm]

width [cm]

height [cm]

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* 11. Other requirements (select as many as applicable):

Payload is required to touch the Lunar surface (e.g. a penetrometer)

Payload is required to point towards the surface (e.g. a camera/spectrometer analyzing soil at a distance)

Payload is required to point towards deep space (e.g. a retro-reflector)

Payload is required to point towards the horizon (e.g. a camera with a wide field of view)

Payload requires active pointing (e.g. a camera with telephoto lens)

Payload does not need to be exposed to the Lunar environment (e.g. an accelerometer)

Payload needs to be deployed on the ground

Payload needs to be launched into an inaccessible area

Other, more details (please specify):

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* 12. Does your payload include internal data processing?:

Yes

No, and would need processing of data by the rover computer

No, but would not need processing of data by the rover computer

Other (please specify)

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* 13. If your payload requires external data processing, please describe the nature of this processing (algorithm type, computing power required or related parameters)

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* 14. Do you require on-board memory storage?

Yes

Lunar rover user survey

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LUVMI-X Rover

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* 1. Name of your payload:

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* 2. Please briefly describe your payload and its function:

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* 3. Please describe the concept of operations (if you would like to provide more details or illustrations, you will be able to in a subsequent question):

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* 4. What landing sites are most interesting to your payload?

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* 5. Do you have a particular site of interest?

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* 6. If known, what is the minimum distance from the lander that your payload needs to operate at?

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* 7. What is the estimated mass of your payload (in kg)?

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LUVMI-X Payload Bays

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* 9. Please indicate which of the following form factors or envelopes is the most likely to encompass your payload:

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* 10. If the envelopes above are not suitable, please provide the dimensions of your payload (in cm):

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* 11. Other requirements (select as many as applicable):

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* 12. Does your payload include internal data processing?:

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* 13. If your payload requires external data processing, please describe the nature of this processing (algorithm type, computing power required or related parameters)

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* 14. Do you require on-board memory storage?

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* 15. Please describe how much memory storage you may require and/or what type of data you intend to store: