MANFRED MEMORIAL MOON MISSION (4M): A PRIVATELY FUNDED LOW COST LUNAR FLYBY MISSION

摘要

The first privately funded mission to the moon, the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M), was developed within six months. In addition to the offered attractive launch opportunity itself, three main mission objectives powered the development. First objective, as indicated in its name, was to honour and commemorate Prof. Manfred Fuchs, the founder of LuxSpace and its parent company OHB who passed away early 2014. Second objective was to demonstrate crowd-based tracking and navigation for deep space missions. For this second objective, the global radioamateur community was gained as a central partner for mission operations. Third objective was to measure the radiation dose on the way to the moon and back. These measurements were performed with a newly developed radiation dosimeter, which was selected from several candidates for technology demonstration.