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Kasım 2007’de Japonya’nın Kaguya ay yörünge aracı tarafından çekilmiş, Dünya’nın yüksek çözünürlüklü bir görüntüsü. Kredi: JAXA/NHK
Önümüzdeki on yıl için planlanan düzinelerce Ay göreviyle yeni bir Ay keşif çağı yükselişte. Avrupa, burada ön planda yer alıyor, Gateway ay istasyonunun ve insanları doğal uydumuza döndürmek üzere ayarlanmış Orion uzay aracının inşasına katkıda bulunmanın yanı sıra Argonaut olarak bilinen büyük lojistik Ay iniş aracını geliştiriyor. Ay’ın üzerinde ve çevresinde onlarca görev yürütüleceğinden ve Dünya’dan bağımsız olarak birbirleriyle iletişim kurmaları ve konumlarını belirlemeleri gerekeceğinden, bu yeni çağın kendi zamanına ihtiyacı olacak. Buna bağlı olarak uzay organizasyonları Ay’da nasıl zaman tutulacağını düşünmeye başladılar. Geçen Kasım ayında ESA’nın Hollanda’daki ESTEC teknoloji merkezinde bir toplantıyla başlayan tartışma, ortak bir ‘ortak’ anlaşmaya varmak için daha büyük bir çabanın parçası.LunaNetAy iletişimi ve navigasyon hizmetlerini kapsayan mimari.
Sanatçının bir Ay keşif senaryosu izlenimi. Kredi bilgileri: ESA–ATG
“LunaNet, gelecekteki ay görevlerinin birlikte çalışmasına izin veren, üzerinde ortaklaşa kullanım için Dünya’da yaptığımıza kavramsal olarak benzeyen, karşılıklı olarak üzerinde anlaşmaya varılan standartlar, protokoller ve arayüz gereksinimlerinin bir çerçevesidir.[{” attribute=””>GPS Timing is a crucial element, adds ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano: “During this meeting at ESTEC, we agreed on the importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time, which is internationally accepted and towards which all lunar systems and users may refer to. A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this.”
On the 20th day of the Artemis I mission, Orion captures the Moon during its lunar flyby. The image was taken by a camera mounted on the European Service Module solar array wings, on December 5, 2022. Credit: NASA
Up until now, each new mission to the Moon is operated on its own timescale exported from Earth, with deep space antennas used to keep onboard chronometers synchronized with terrestrial time at the same time as they facilitate two-way communications. This way of working will not be sustainable however in the coming lunar environment. Once complete, the Gateway station will be open to astronaut stays, resupplied through regular NASA Artemis launches, progressing to a human return to the lunar surface, culminating in a crewed base near the lunar south pole. Meanwhile, numerous uncrewed missions will also be in place – each Artemis mission alone will release numerous lunar CubeSats – and ESA will be putting down its Argonaut European Large Logistics Lander. Artist’s impression of the lunar Gateway, a habitat, refueling, and research center for astronauts exploring our Moon as part of the Artemis program. Credit: NASA/Alberto Bertolin
These missions will not only be on or around the Moon at the same time, but they will often be interacting as well – potentially relaying communications for one another, performing joint observations or carrying out rendezvous operations. “Looking ahead to lunar exploration of the future, ESA is developing through its Moonlight program a lunar communications and navigation service,” explains Wael-El Daly, system engineer for Moonlight. “This will allow missions to maintain links to and from Earth, and guide them on their way around the moon and on the surface, allowing them to focus on their core tasks. But also, Moonlight will need a shared common timescale in order to get missions linked up and to facilitate position fixes.” ESA’s Moonlight initiative involves expanding satnav coverage and communication links to the Moon. The first stage involves demonstrating the use of current satnav signals around the Moon. This will be achieved with the Lunar Pathfinder satellite in 2024. The main challenge will be overcoming the limited geometry of satnav signals all coming from the same part of the sky, along with the low signal power. To overcome that limitation, the second stage, the core of the Moonlight system, will see dedicated lunar navigation satellites and lunar surface beacons providing additional ranging sources and extended coverage. Credit: ESA-K Oldenburg
And Moonlight will be joined in lunar orbit by an equivalent service sponsored by NASA – the Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation System. To maximize interoperability these two systems should employ the same timescale, along with the many other crewed and uncrewed missions they will support.
Jörg Hahn, ESA’s chief Galileo engineer and also advising on lunar time aspects comments: “Interoperability of time and geodetic reference frames has been successfully achieved here on Earth for Global Navigation Satellite Systems; all of today’s smartphones are able to make use of existing GNSS to compute a user position down to a meter or even decimeter level. Picture of the far side of the Moon taken on flight day six of the Artemis I mission from the Orion spacecraft optical navigation camera. Credit: NASA
“The experience of this success can be re-used for the technical long-term lunar systems to come, even though stable timekeeping on the Moon will throw up its own unique challenges – such as taking into account the fact that time passes at a different rate there due to the Moon’s specific gravity and velocity effects.” Accurate navigation demands rigorous timekeeping. This is because a satnav receiver determines its location by converting the times that multiple satellite signals take to reach it into measures of distance – multiplying time by the speed of light.
Your satnav receiver needs a minimum of four satellites in the sky, their onboard clocks synchronized and orbital positions monitored by global ground segments. It picks up signals from each satellite, which each incorporate a precise time stamp.
All the terrestrial satellite navigation systems, such as Europe’s Galileo or the United States’ GPS, run on their own distinct timing systems, but these possess fixed offsets relative to each other down to a few billionths of a second, and also to the UTC Universal Coordinated Time global standard. The replacement for Greenwich Mean Time, UTC is part of all our daily lives: it is the timing used for Internet, banking, and aviation standards as well as precise scientific experiments, maintained by the Paris-based Bureau International de Poids et Mesures (BIPM). Galileo is based on a worldwide time reference called Galileo System Time (GST), the standard for Europe’s satellite navigation system, kept close to UTC with an accuracy of 28 billionths of a second. Accurate timings enable accurate ranging for position and navigation services, and their dissemination is an important service in its own right. Credit: ESA
The BIPM computes UTC based on inputs from collections of atomic clocks maintained by institutions around the world, including ESA’s ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and the ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany. Among the current topics under debate is whether a single organization should similarly be responsible for setting and maintaining lunar time. And also, whether lunar time should be set on an independent basis on the Moon or kept synchronized with Earth. A mosaic of the south pole of our Moon showing locations of major craters, with images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University The international team working on the subject will face considerable technical issues. For example, clocks on the Moon run faster than their terrestrial equivalents – gaining around 56 microseconds or millionths of a second per day. Their exact rate depends on their position on the Moon, ticking differently on the lunar surface than from orbit.
“Of course, the agreed time system will also have to be practical for astronauts,” explains Bernhard Hufenbach, a member of the Moonlight Management Team from ESA’s Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration. “This will be quite a challenge on a planetary surface where in the equatorial region each day is 29.5 days long, including freezing fortnight-long lunar nights, with the whole of Earth just a small blue circle in the dark sky. But having established a working time system for the Moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations.” Son olarak, düzgün bir şekilde birlikte çalışmak için, uluslararası toplum, Dünya’da Uluslararası Karasal Referans Çerçevesinin oynadığı role benzer şekilde, gezegenimizdeki noktalar arasındaki kesin mesafelerin tutarlı bir şekilde ölçülmesine izin veren ortak bir “selenosentrik referans çerçevesi” üzerinde anlaşmak zorunda kalacak. . Uygun şekilde özelleştirilmiş referans çerçeveleri, günümüzün GNSS sistemlerinin temel bileşenleridir. Javier, “İnsanlık tarihi boyunca keşif, gelişmiş zaman tutma ve jeodezik referans modellerinin temel itici gücü olmuştur” diye ekliyor. “Uluslararası kabul görmüş bir zaman ölçeği ve ortak bir selenosentrik referans belirlemeye çalışan Ay için bunu yapmak kesinlikle heyecan verici bir zaman. cislunar uzayda araştırma fırsatları ve uygulamaları.
Ay’da ortak keşif için mimari
Moonlight satellites on the way
Fixing time to fix position
Setting global time
By calculating the length of time it takes for each signal to reach your receiver, the receiver builds up a three-dimensional picture of your position – longitude, latitude, and altitude – relative to the satellites. Future receivers will be able to track Galileo satellites in addition to US and Russian navigation satellites, providing meter-scale positioning accuracy almost anywhere on or even off Earth: satnav is also heavily used by satellites.
Credit: ESA
Designing lunar chronology
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