Structural Design and Impact Analysis of a 1.5U CubeSat on the Lunar Surface
Christopher W. Hays, Daniel Posada, Aryslan Malik, Dalton Korczyk, Ben Dafoe, Troy Henderson
Ahead of the United States’ crewed return to the moon in 2024, Intuitive Machines, under a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, will land their Nova-C lunar lander in October 2021. At 30 meters altitude during the terminal descent, EagleCam will be deployed, and will capture and transmit the first-ever third-person images of a spacecraft making an extraterrestrial landing. This paper will focus on the structural design, modeling, and impact analysis of a 1.5U CubeSat payload to withstand a ballistic, soft-touch landing on the lunar surface.
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2203.01398 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2203.01398v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Aryslan Malik
[v1] Wed, 2 Mar 2022 20:44:02 UTC (33,530 KB)
