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1. Snooping for Water and other things on the Moon
ILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020, Vienna
2. Participated in the Google
Lunar XPRIZE
Founded 2010 June
2016 August
Moon Delivery Contract
/pulispace /company/puli-spacepulispace.com
About Puli
Tibor Pacher / Puli Space Technologies Ltd., http://pulispace.comILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020
3. Field Tested prototypes
Experience in Remote
Controlled Operations
Knowledge in Lunar Science
& Mission Design
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Puli achievements
4. Lunar Resource Potential
First Prize ->
NASA Challenge
Wanted:
-small,lightweight payloads
●fits into 100mm x 100mm x 50mm
●mass < 400 gr
Honey, I shrunk the NASA Payload!
Puli Lunar
Water Snooper
Tibor Pacher / Puli Space Technologies Ltd., http://pulispace.comILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020
5. Surface ice distribution at the
moon’s poles (south: left)
Data: NASA Mineralogy Mapper on
Chandrayaan - 1
Water: valuable ressource
-life support
-rocket fuel
Water on the Moon
Tibor Pacher / Puli Space Technologies Ltd., http://pulispace.comILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020
● Cosmic Ray interaction with regolith
generates gamma, neutron, proton, etc.
radiation
● Ratio of thermal/epithermal neutron fluxes ->
proportional to H2O content in regolith
● neutron spectrometeres
Confirmation from orbit
Hunt for ground truth
6. Puli Lunar Water Snooper
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7. Puli Lunar Water Snooper
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8. Ongoing work
-Raise TRL level to TRL4/5
-Proof-of-Concept tests
-Improve simulations
Current status - TRL 3
-detailed Monte Carlo simulations
-FLUKA / GEANT4
-Neutron flux prediction
-CMOS sensor characteristics
PLWS - Puli Lunar Water Snooper
Tibor Pacher / Puli Space Technologies Ltd., http://pulispace.comILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020
Proof-of-concept tests
-Sensors identified
-Special boron coating tests in
preparation
9. Neutron Spectrometer System
NASA CLPS Programme
-Astrobotic / Peregrine - 2021
-Masten Systems - 2022
-Astrobotic / VIPER - 2023
Some Upcoming Missions
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Near-Infrared Volatiles
Spectrometer System
10. Puli Rover - 2023 ?
Puli Lunar Water Snooper - 2022 ?
Puli Spacetime Plaque - 2021
Astrobotic Missions
- Peregrine 2021
- Moonranger (Masten) 2022
- Griffin / Viper 2023
Tibor Pacher / Puli Space Technologies Ltd., http://pulispace.comILOA Galaxy Forum Europe 2020
Moon Delivery Partner