Bernard Foing of ESA / ILEWG

1. Astronomy from the Moon,
ExoGeoLab Robotic Telescopes &
VLF Precursors
Prof. Bernard Foing (ESA ESTEC, ILEWG & VU Amsterdam)
Senior Scientist ESA ESTEC, Executive Director ILEWG, co-director IMA
SMART-1 Project scientist, Co-I Mars Express & ExoMars
PI ExoGeoLab, EuroMoonMars, Prof VU Amsterdam, ISAE, ISU, FloridaTech
Bernard:Foing@esa.int , SMART-1team & EuroMoonMars Team (2009-2020)
2016-2021 Armin Wedler & DLR ARCHES team, 2017 Joe Silk, Farrokh Vakili & ICMoon team
2020 Sabrina, Roxana, Henk, Michaela, Marc, Anouk & EMMIHS 2-4 teams, Jamal, Anna, Liza,
2019 Henk, Michaela, Nity, Sebastian, Annelotte, Josh, Ben, Paul, Andrew, Dan &
2018-19 Bram, Marc, Dieke, Marjolein, Bram, Isaac, Guido & VU Igluna
Anna S, Marius, Benjamin, Germaine, Yolanda, Carmen, Yvette & ILEWG,
2018 Elise C, Louis D, Sandro P, Anna, Anastasia I, Alexander Z ,
2017 Arthur L, Heleen V, Agata K, Matt H, Matteus K, Maria G, Andjela T, Pierre E, Lorene A, Axel B, Cynthia C.
, Tibor P. , Angeliki, Yolanda et al
2016 Clément J, Oscar K, Valentin G, Manon M, Irene S, Christiane H

2. 1865 J Verne de la T à la Lune
1874-1883 Vienna 68 cm F Josef 1
1902 Méliès

4. Moon village orbital fleet 2003-2010:
SMART-1, Kaguya, Chang’E 1 & 2 , Chandrayaan1

5. 15 years ago, SMART-1 was at the Moon
http://sci.esa.int/smart-1/
First European lunar orbiter
Test new technologies
- Solar Electric Propulsion
- instrument miniaturisation
- Faster, cheaper, smarter
Launch mass: 370 kg
Payload: 19 kg
Launch date: 27 Sept 2003,
Ariane 5
Lunar capture: 15 Nov. 2004
Science orbit 15 March 2005
Mission: 6 + 12 months
nominal lunar
orbit operations until
Impact 3 Sept 2006
Data on PDS archives,
75 refereed publis
estec
SMART-1 first image of Europe
June 2004
Vienna

6. What shapes rocky planets?
Prospector H map
Tectonic wrinkles
Volcanism
Tectonics
Polar regions
Bombardmen
t
SMART-1
impact
Cratering
Bombardment chronology

7. 20 km
SMART travel maps
to Lunar South Pole
(Ellouzi, Foing et al 2006)
Earth
Amundsen crater
(84.5º S, 82.8º E)
ZOOM
Shackleton
crater
Faustini
crater
Shoemaker
deGerlache

8. SMART-1 Peak of Light
2006

9. MoonVillage Roadmap: International Lunar Exploration Working Group
Robotic village Intl Lunar basePrecursors

10. Telescopes from the Moon
(COSPAR/IAC 1992, Foing 1994)
 No atmosphere, all wavelengths
 Good seismic stability, avoid dust ops
 Solar, Earth & Planetary Monitoring
 Lunar transit telescope
 Variability studies
 Deep sky telescopes: liquid mirror
 Far Infrared in permanent shadow areas
 High Energy: X, Gamma, particle, cerenkov

11. ExoGeoLab Lander and
Remote Controlled Telescope at ESTEC
(astro & remote supervision of rovers/astronauts)

12. ExoGeoLab
Telescope &
Camera
Remote
Control from
ExoHab
Laboratory

13. ExoGeoLab lander &
Telescope in
Lunares Base yard
(Poland)
Remote control
From ESTEC

15. MoonVillage Roadmap: International Lunar Exploration Working Group 1998
(sci.esa.int/ilewg)
Robotic village Intl Lunar basePrecursors

20. ROBEX DLR lunar lander & rover
campaign at Etna (June 2017)

21.  Preparation of technology for a
lunar mission
 Scientific goal: placement of an
array of seismometers for
study of moon geophysics
 Demonstration in analog
environment
Remote Unit
ca. 100 m
Lander
ROBEX – Robots for Extreme Environments
Rover uses its camera eyes to scan the
environment and to plan its route
autonomously

22. VLF radio astronomy
 Design considerations
– Earth ionosphere
– Moondaylight ionosphere
– Interstellar scattering 22/fMHz**2 arcmin
– Temporal interplanetary broadening 0.1
fMHz**-4 sec ( x 2 10**9 interstellar)

23. ARCHES radio telescope demo
 Calibrated distant terrestrial source
 Solar burst observations
 Jupiter observations (night in July
2020) & Io-Jupiter radioburst events
 Milky way & supernovae remnants

25. Solar radio bursts

26. Solar radio 20 MHz (2 hr + event
zoom 20 mn)
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28. Jupiter radio 22 MHz
(Cassini)

30.  Sun
 Milky Way
 Jupiter io

31. Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon
(Angel, Worden, Foing et al 2007 )

33. Astronomy from the Moon:
Upcoming projects
 Chang’E3 telescope, Chang’E4 radio
 Telescopes on small landers (ILOA, CLPS)
 Telescopes from Lunar orbit & Gateway
 Farside radio project & LOFAR
 Telescopes on cargo & human landers
 Observatories @ human outposts/bases
 Interferometers
 Liquid mirror lunar telescopes