Distress Monitoring and Tracking for Future Lunar Exploration.
Artemis exploration at the Lunar South Pole presents unique terrain challenges and a key element of safe exploration is the provision of a cislunar and lunar surface distress tracking/notification system. NASA has a requirement to safely abort lunar surface operations, including extravehicular activity (EVA), and execute all operations required for a safe return to Earth. This includes the initial location determination of injured crew members, similar to international Personnel Recovery (PR) policy.
An Australian research study conducted in cooperation with the Lunar Search and Rescue (LunaSAR) team at the Goddard Space Flight Centre aims to develop an international, community-wide distress notification and tracking beacon system architecture for lunar surface users engaged in exploration in the Lunar South Pole and other areas. LunaSAR's goal is the provision of persistent, reliable, and accurate distress location and notification services to lunar surface users and human-tended surface mobility elements.
An overview of LunaSAR, the study and experimental results will be presented, including plans for next year’s field trial with NASA.
Applications on Earth for safety of personnel in hazardous situations includes emergency services for floods, bush fires and generally serious unplanned incidents will be discussed.
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- Date: 15 Nov 2024
- Time: 05:40 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:30) Adelaide
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- University of Adelaide, Engineering North Bldg
- Adelaide, South Australia
- Australia 5000
- Building: Engineering North
- Room Number: N132
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Ronald Mulinde: ronmul@gmail.com
- Starts 06 November 2024 12:00 AM
- Ends 14 November 2024 11:55 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:30) Adelaide
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Mark of Safety from Space
Biography:
Dr Mark Rice is a satellite systems engineer and technologist, living in Adelaide, South Australia. Mark graduated with a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1989, and then joined the University of South Australia.
As a spin off from his satellite communications research work, Mark co-founded three technology start-ups. Mark was Chief Technical Office of DSpace for 15 years before appointment as a Senior Engineering Fellow with global company Honeywell.
He founded Safety from Space in 2018 to assist people in emergency situations. Collaborating with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and NASA Search and Rescue Office, the aim is to make more effective use of existing and future space assets.
Recently, Mark was the acting Program Lead for an Australian government small satellite program to integrate multi-mission payloads and now leads a tactical radio research project.
Mark has authored several patents in satellite communications technology and regularly publishes research papers.