Analog Astronauts Missions Highlights from ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars and EuroSpaceHub Academy
- 1LUNEX EuroMoonMars EuroSpaceHub & Leiden, EuroMoonMars, EuroSpaceHub Academy, Wassenaar, Netherlands (foing@strw.leidenuniv.nl)
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
We describe analog astronauts Missions Highlights from ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars, EuroSpaceHub Academy and partners.
EuroMoonMars is an ILEWG programme [1-229] in collaboration with space agencies, academia, universities and research institutions and industries. The programme includes research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in MoonMars analogue, pilot projects, training and hands-on workshops, technical visits and outreach activities. Extreme environments on Earth often provide similar terrain conditions to sites on the Moon and Mars.
In order to maximize scientific return it becomes more important to rehearse mission operations in the field and through simulations. EuroMoonMars field campaigns have then been organised in specific locations of technical, scientific and exploration interest. Lunex EuroMoonMars, has been organizing in collaboration with ESA, NASA, European and US universities a programme of data analysis, instrumentation tests, field work and analog missions for students and researchers in different locations worldwide since 2009, including Hawaii HI-SEAs, Utah MDRS, Iceland, Etna/ Vulcano Italy, Atacama, AATC Poland, ESTEC Netherlands, Eifel Germany, etc…
Analogue missions provide a practical ground in which students can test the notions learnt at the university in a realistic simulation context. Over the course of these missions, students have access to special Space instrumentation, laboratories, Facilities, Science Operations, Human Robotic partnerships. In 2023, EuroMoonMars and EuroSpaceHub Academy co-sponsored a series of EMMPOL Moonbase isolation simulation campaigns in Poland, EMMIHS EuroMoonMars IntlMoonBase alliance Simulations in HI-SEAS Hawaii, supported other field campaigns (including CHILL-ICE, Amadeus, MDRS).
We also developed in 2023 ExoSpaceHab Xpress (ESH-X), an innovative portable lunar base simulator designed for education, analog missions and public outreach. This habitat has been funded by European consortium EuroSpaceHub and its partner LUNEX EuroMoonMars. After being exhibited at Padova Botanical Garden in Italy, ExoSpaceHab-X was used from Sep 20th to Oct at ENS Paris Saclay, and was then installed from 15 Oct 2023 at Noordwijk SBIC Space Business Incubation Centre and in Leiden for further developments and simulations with the new cohort of EuroMoonMars EurospaceHub Academy 2024 and their collaborators.
References: [1-229]: EuroMoonMars ILEWG https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=euromoonmars%20or%20eurogeomars%20or%20ilewg
B. Foing1-10, H. Rogers2 , J. Pascual4, V. Puriené4, F. Fazel3;4;5, A. Ropero3,4, K. Claeys2,3,4, T. Ducai3,4,10, S. Crotti3,4 , D. Tagne3,4, S. Vleugels5,10, O. Swida5,10, R. Hoogenboom5,10, D. Abbink5,10, EuroSpaceHub Team4, A. Kolodziejczyk3,7, I.R.Perrier3,7,9, S. Baatout11, S. Pavanello14, C. Stoker1 , P. Ehrenfreund1,19, TaiSik Lee2, M.Musilova2 , M. Heemskerk2,3 , C. Pouwels2,3,12 , A. Tavernier13 , K. McGrath3,7,12,15 , , C.Robertson3,10,15, I. Horvatt3,10,15, M.Balfe3,10,15, J.Laffey3,10,15, C.Tyndall3,10,15, M.Harvey3,10,15, A. Ehreiser16, L.Schlarmann3,4, B Reymens3,4, P.Sol3,9,10, K. Gautam3,4, A. Wedler16, A. Autino17, S. Heinz17 , J. Pelton17, J. Crisafulli17 , V. Beldavs17 , D.Tacchini10 , A. Hutchinson3,4, C.Duboille10,21, M. Gil Navidad19,10 , V. Foing10, B. Demir10, G. Reibaldi20, J. Mankins20, S.Molony3,10,15 , D.Osioanu3,10,15 , S. Ip-Jewell17, EuroMoonMars campaigns teams3, 1ILEWG MDRS campaign teams (ESA ESTEC, NASA Ames, VU Amsterdam, GWU), 2 EuroMoonMars-Intl MoonBase Alliance & HISEAs, 3ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars, 4 EuroSpaceHub, 5Leiden Observatory, 6ESA ESTEC, 7EMMPOL/AATC, 8Moon Gallery Foundation, 9IPSA, 10EuroSpaceHub Academy, 11Politecnico Torino, 12EMM CHILL-ICE Iceland team, 13U of Atacama, Chile, 14U Padova, 15TU Dublin, 16DLR Institute of Mechatronics & ROBEX/ARCHES telerobotics Etna campaigns, 17Space Renaissance International, 18Fotonika U Latvia, 19ISU International Space University, 20MVA Moon Village Association, 21ENS Ecole Normale Sup Paris-Saclay and HEC Hautes Etudes Commerciales (foing at strw.leidenuniv.nl)
How to cite: Foing, B. and the ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars, EuroSpaceHub Academy Team and partners: Analog Astronauts Missions Highlights from ILEWG LUNEX EuroMoonMars and EuroSpaceHub Academy, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17396, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17396, 2024.
