Science and Exploration at the Moon and Mars Enabled by Surface Telerobotics

摘要

NASA/ESA are preparing a series of Exploration Missions using Orion andadditional infrastructure at a Deep Space Gateway in cis-lunar space. This willprovide an opportunity for science and exploraiton from the lunar farsidefacilitated by surface telerobotics. We describe several precursor telepresenceexperiments, using the ISS and a student-built rover, which are laying thegroundwork for teleoperation of rovers on the Moon and eventually Mars. Wedescribe exciting near-term science that can be conducted from the lunarfarside with teleoperated rovers including an astronaut-assisted sample return,a high priority from the U.S. Planetary Science Decadal Survey, and thedeployment of a low frequency radio telescope array to observe the first starsand galaxies (Cosmic Dawn), as described in NASA's Astrophysics Roadmap.