The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission (LADEE)

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elphic, Richard C. (Editor), Russell, Christopher T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

This volume contains five articles describing the mission and its instruments.  The first paper, by the project scientist Richard C. Elphic and his colleagues, describes the mission objectives, the launch vehicle, spacecraft and the mission itself.  This is followed by a description of LADEE’s Neutr...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission
• The Neutral Mass Spectrometer on the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission
• An Overview of the LADEE Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer
• The Lunar Dust Experiment (LDEX) Onboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission
• The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration: NASA’s First Step Toward Very High Data Rate Support of Science and Exploration Missions.