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Science Objectives

  • Inform future planetary defense strategies
  • Understand the evolution of Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
  • Investigate diversity of sizes, compositions, spectra, inferred densities, porosities, binaries, etc.
  • Characterize the geology and composition/mineralogy of lunar landing environments
  • Study the moon’s origin, evolution, and resource inventory
  • Increase knowledge of lunar radiation environment, microbe development potential, and fragile lunar atmosphere
  • Feed forward science for future human and robotic space exploration
  • Deepen our understanding of the formation of our solar system

Instrumentation

Knowledge would be obtained using data from small and high-heritage payload elements like visible to near-IR and thermal imagers, near-IR point or imaging spectrometers, and deep space radio communications systems.

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IP and data rights (based on the Hubble model)

  • Spacecraft and component designs are proprietary to provider and institute, if desired.
  • Design information is never released to the public without member agreement.
  • Science data is shared among all MILO members immediately and embargoed from public release for a year.
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    The MILO Institute is a nonprofit research collaborative led by Arizona State University, with support from Lockheed Martin and GEOshare.