Update Quine Blog 4/12/2017

Quine Blog - 4/12/2017
Miguel H. Quine – 4/12/2017
Previous analysis for the research project: “ NASA Science Instruments for the Next Space Exploration Missions”

NASA Science Instruments for the Next Space Exploration Missions

The goals of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for space exploration, in the next 25 years, are focused to improve the technology capacity by creating the adequate environment for the humans in such a way that can live, work, navigate and travel distant locations in the deep space, and landing and departing from the planets and asteroids with reliable and fast communications with the Earth. By 2025 is expected to send astronauts to an asteroid and by 2030 to send humans to Mars, first to orbit the planet and after landing on it and returning to the Earth.

The next space exploration missions of NASA to achieve the goals will be based in new and improved science instruments technologies that are in design and development by NASA through programs in Science Instruments, Observatories, and Sensor Systems, Position, Navigation, and Timing, Tracking Systems, Advanced Communications, Rendezvous and Dock spacecraft in deep space, Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems, and others.

This paper will be focused on summarizing all programs about space exploration science instruments technologies and the link of them with the next space exploration missions defined by NASA and their required science instruments, according the defined needs and goals for the next 25 years.

NASA Science Instruments for the Next Space Exploration Missions

Introduction

Problem Statement

Literature Review

            Remote Sensing Instruments:

Active Sensors: Laser Altimeter, Lidar, Radar, Ranging Instruments, Scatterometer, Sounder. Passive Sensors: Accelerometer, Hyperspectral radiometer, Radiometer, Sounder, Spectrometer, Spectroradiometer.

            NASA - Current Space Exploration Science Missions with their Science Instruments

            NASA - Science Instruments Programs for Future Space Exploration Missions

Remote Sensing, Observatories, and In-Situ Instruments, Communications and Navigation, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)

Science Instruments for the Next Space Exploration Missions

Asteroid redirect robotic mission ARRM, Cold Atom Laboratory CAL, Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), Euclid, Europa Clipper, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO), InSight, Mars 2020, Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA), NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO), Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), Psyche Mission to Asteroid, Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT).

Conclusions