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| From the Editor-in-Chief |
Dear Readers,
This year’s first quarter (2025) witnessed both the ups and downs of commercial Lunar landings, Firefly’s Blue Ghost and Intuitive Machines” Athena. Both successfully landed on the Moon’s surface, albeit one upright and the other sideways. This quarterly issue reviews the operations of both lunar landers. Blue Ghost immediately after landing, started collecting scientific data from their payloads. Athena shortly after landing realized damages to the lander’s legs. Deep-diving into both scenarios, this issue’s articles probe into Blue Ghost mission objectives and the requirements engineering of Athena laser range finder’s lunar terrain relative navigation for precision landing and the safety assessment of its lander legged assembly.
Sincerely,
Ronald H. Freeman, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
April 1, 2025 |
Journal of Space Operations & Communicator, a quarterly online publication, serves as a forum for those involved in the space operations field to communicate with one another, share ideas and information that improve the way operations are carried out in space. The Journal is a crossdisciplinary scholarly publication designed to advance space communication as a profession and as an academic discipline. The Journal is distributed electronically without charge to users on a global basis. JSOC contains peer-reviewed articles, comments and case notes written by leading scientists, professors, and practitioners in their respective fields of aerospace expertise. The editorial board seeks articles that demonstrate exemplary academic research of emerging trends in space technology and space operations fields.
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