Bi-sat Observations of the Lunar environment Above Swirls (BOLAS): Tethered Microsat Investigation Of Space Weathering and the Water Cycle at the Moon


Timothy John Stubbs1, Benjamin K Malphrus2, Robert P Hoyt3, Michael A Mesarch1, Dean J. Chai4, Michael K. Choi5, Michael Tsay6, Aaron P Zucherman7, Michael R Collier8, John W Keller9, William M. Farrell10, Jared R Espley11, Jasper S Halekas12, David A Glenar13, Thomas E Johnson14, Georgiana Y Kramer15, Michael E Purucker16, Richard R Vondrak17, Pamela Clark18 and Jacob Gruesbeck19, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Morehead State University, Morehead, United States, (3)Tethers Unlimited, Inc., Bothell, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Attitude Control Systems Engineering Branch, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Thermal Engineering Branch, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Busek Co., Inc., Natick, United States, (7)Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, United States, (8)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (13)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (14)NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (15)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, United States, (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Magnetospheres Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (17)NASA Goddard SFC (Retired), Greenbelt, United States, (18)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (19)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States