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Lunar Archives in PDS Ed Guinness PDS Management Council Washington, DC April 3, 2008. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Launch: October 28, 2008 (nominal, will probably slip) Mission: 1 year under ESMD, then extended mission under SMD Payload:. LRO Archive Development Work.
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Lunar Archives in PDS Ed Guinness PDS Management CouncilWashington, DCApril 3, 2008
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter • Launch: October 28, 2008 (nominal, will probably slip) • Mission: 1 year under ESMD, then extended mission under SMD • Payload:
LRO Archive Development Work • PDS Archive Development Work for LRO: • Help Project write Data Management and Archive Plan • Participate in LRO Data Working Group biweekly meetings led by LRO Project • Help instrument teams design data products and additional archive components, documented in Data Product SISs and Archive Volume SISs • Conduct peer reviews of raw and derived data product design • Conduct tests of data delivery from instrument teams to PDS nodes • Help teams provide input to PDS Catalog and PDS Data Dictionary about LRO data sets • Lead node for PDS is the Geosciences Node
LRO Archive Development Status * EDR = raw data products RDR = derived data products
LRO Concerns • SPICE • Instrument teams are expecting SPICE kernels to be available for derived product generation. • NAIF is uncertain whether LRO mission operations is fully prepared to generate and deliver SPICE kernels. • LOLA product design delayed • Data provider was waiting for instrument tests; now has necessary instrument details and is catching up. • Raw products have been designed and reviewed. • Derived product design is in progress. • LROC product design delayed • Data provider is busy with instrument preparation. • EDR product design is in draft form, peer review starting. • Derived product design has begun; and not reviewed.
LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) • Launch: Piggyback on LRO (nominally October 28, 2008) • Mission: Drop empty fuel container on surface and observe impact; then impact itself • Payload:
LCROSS Archive Development Work • PDS Archive Development Work for LCROSS: • Help Project write Archive Plan • Lead bimonthly Data and Archive Working Group meetings • Help the LCROSS instrument lead (one person for all instruments) design data products and additional archive components, documented in Data Product SIS and Archive Volume SIS • Conduct peer review of raw and derived data product design • Conduct tests of data delivery from LCROSS to PDS nodes • Help LCROSS provide input to PDS Catalog and PDS Data Dictionary • Lead node for PDS is the Geosciences Node
LCROSS Archive Status • Status of archive tasks: • Archive Plan complete • Data product design in progress but behind schedule • Geosciences Node gave PDS Archiving presentation at LCROSS Astronomy Workshop • Issues: • Archive development is behind schedule • Instrument team is very small (2-3 people) and probably overextended • Many canceled meetings and slipped delivery dates • Peer reviews should have started April 1, but as yet no documents or sample data have been provided to review • Uncertainty about Earth-based observations • Data types and formats are unknown • How to coordinate and simplify archives from several sources, including many who are inexperienced at producing PDS archives
GRAIL • Discovery mission to measure lunar gravity field • Maria Zuber, MIT, is the PI • Uses two small spacecraft with the trailing spacecraft chasing the leading one (heritage from terrestrial GRACE mission) • Launch fall 2011 • Operations from early 2012 until lunar eclipse in June 2012 • Data Management Plan in development • Dick Simpson to work with data producers as our Radio Science Advisor • Raw data to be handled by JPL • Expect derived products (gravity coefficients) from science team • Secondary payload LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) carries a dust counter and neutral mass spectrometer.
PDS Liaison to ESMD • Jeff Plescia, APL, is the PDS liaison to the ESMD program. • Works with ESMD to understand and clarify its requirements on PDS, especially implications for lunar geodesy and cartography. • Advises the Geosciences Lunar Data Node on recovery of older lunar data sets (e.g. Apollo), helping to determine feasibility, to set priorities, and to review completed archives. • Reports to Geosciences Node manager.
LASER Program • Call included request for proposals to recover lunar data considered important to the science and exploration programs • Selections to be announcement shortly • A mechanism is needed between LASER Program and PDS to enable PDS to plan for such data recovery projects • How does PDS know what data recovery proposals are selected in order to plan schedules and resources for working with PI’s to get the recovered data into PDS? • How does NASA HQ track that the proposed data sets, in fact, successfully make it into the PDS archive collections?