Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube mission is a featured story on Space.com.
Senior writer Mike Wall takes a look at the mission.
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It was announced in April that NASA has selected MSU as one of the 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to advance concept studies and technology development projects in the areas of advanced propulsion, habitation and small satellites. The NASA contract is one of the biggest in MSU history at $7.9 million.
Dr. Ben Malphrus, MSU’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences chair and Space Science Center director, is the principal investigator.
The Lunar IceCube mission team includes space systems engineers from Morehead State University, including Jeff Kruth, Kevin Z. Brown, Bob Twiggs, Michael Combs and Eric Thomas, and propulsion engineers from Busek including Kurt Hohman and Mike Tsay. The Science Team includes Dr. Roger McNeil and Dr. Eric Jerde of MSU and Robert MacDowall, Noah Petro, Dennis Reuter, Cliff Brambora, Deepak Patel, Stuart Banks and Avi Mandell from the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. The navigation team is led by Dr. Dave Folta (NASA GSFC), who has calculated a trajectory to the moon that utilizes an innovative low energy manifold trajectory.
Additional information about Lunar IceCube is available by contacting Dr. Malphrus at 606-783-2381 or email b.malphrus@moreheadstate.edu.
