Microlander Related External Web Sites

Following is a list of papers related to the Microlander Team's work, located elsewhere on the World Wide Web.

AmSat - Small Amateur Satellites

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/satsum.html

Most of these things are around 60 kg in mass and around 40 cm on a side, undeployed. The Phase 3D craft is the most ambitious, massing almost a thousand kilos. The Phase 3D uses an electrical ammonia arc-jet system for station-keeping.

SUNSAT

http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za/index_n3.htm

SUNSAT is a 60kg, 45 by 45 by 62 cm micro satellite being designed, built and tested by students at the Electronic Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University.

Summary of Amateur Satellites

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/future.html

There are at least 11 small amateur satellites (using ham radio but not necessarily otherwise associated with AMSAT) being constructed all over the world.

NASA History office

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/history.html

The NASA History office offers a repository of historical data about all NASA projects to date. The Survyeor mission is of particular interest to the Microlander team.

Surrey Lunar Orbiter Mission

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/missions/lunar/index.html

Surrey Paper on Feasibility of a Low-Cost Lunar Mission

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CSER/UOSAT/papers/amsat96/ndm/amsat96a.html

"Other on-going projects that are related, include autonomous navigation and guidance for a lunar mission. It is proposed that the orbiter will release a small instrument package on to the Moon's surface. A current project aims to specify and develop such an instrument."

Radiation-Hardened CCD Equivalents

http://snoopy.gsfc.nasa.gov/~lunartel/lun10.html

CIDS (Charge Injection Detectors). Radiation-hardened CCD equivalents.

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