International Lunar Exploration Working Group

The International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) is a public forum sponsored by the world's space agencies to support "international cooperation towards a world strategy for the exploration and utilization of the Moon \- our natural satellite" (International Lunar Workshop, Beatenberg (CH), June 1994).[1][2]

ILEWG was founded by several space agencies: Australian Space Agency (ASA), Italian Space Agency (ASI), British BNSC, French CNES, German Aerospace Center, ESA, ISAS, NASA, Japanese NASDA, Roskosmos.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Operations and conferences
* 1.1 Members
* 1.2 Roadmap
* 2 EuroMoonMars
* 2.1 EMMIHS Campaigns
* 2.2 EMM IgLuna 2019 Campaign
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Operations and conferences

ILEWG has been organising since 1994 the ICEUM International Conferences on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon[4] with published proceedings,[5] and where community declarations have been prepared and endorsed by community participants. ILEWG has co-organised and co-sponsored lunar sessions at EGU, COSPAR, EPSC.

The 8th gathering was held on July 23–27, 2006, in Beijing, China, and agreed on the new Lunar Beijing Declaration.[1]

### Members

ILEWG Executive Director: Prof. Bernard Foing (ILEWG Past-President, 1998 - 2000)

ILEWG Vice-presidents: Prof. Tai Sik Lee (2016 - current), Prof. Jacques Blamont (2010 - 2016), Dr. Simonetta di Pippo (2006 – 2008), Dr Robert Richards (2005 - 2007)

ILEWG Past-Presidents : Dr. Michael Wargo (2008 - 2010), Prof. Wu Ji (2006 - 2008), Prof. Narendra Bhandari (2004 - 2006), Prof Carle Pieters (2002 – 2004), Prof Mike Duke (2000-2002), Prof Bernard Foing (1998 – 2000), Acad. Erik Galimov (1996 – 1998), Dr Hitoshi Mizutani

### Roadmap

The roadmap or timeline envisaged includes a 15-year period of robotic operations before crewed missions.[3]: 9 Robots would pilot in-situ resource utilisation and construct habitation for later crew.

## EuroMoonMars

As part of research efforts towards the colonization of Moon and eventually, the colonization of Mars, ILEWG founded the EuroMoonMars initiative, which comprises field campaigns in Moon-Mars analogue environments.[6]

The EuroMoonMars field campaigns have been organised in specific locations of technical, scientific and exploration interest. The campaigns started with EuroGeoMars2009 (Utah MDRS, 24 Jan-1 Mar 2009) with ILEWG, ESA ESTEC, NASA Ames, VU Amsterdam and GWU.[7]

### EMMIHS Campaigns

Currently, ILEWG is collaborating with the International Moonbase Alliance (IMA)[8] and the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) on a series of EuroMoonMars, IMA and HI-SEAS (EMMIHS) campaigns, at the HI-SEAS analogue facilities in Hawaii.[9]

The Hawaii - Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) habitat is located at 8,200’ (2,500 meters) in elevation and IMA's founder, Henk Rogers, is its owner.[10] As of 2018, IMA, an organization dedicated to building sustainable settlements on the Moon, has been organising regular simulated missions to the Moon, Mars or other planetary bodies at HI-SEAS. Dr. Michaela Musilova is the Director of HI-SEAS[11] and she also takes part in missions as a Crew Commander, Flights Director or CAPCOM.

The EuroMoonMars campaigns consist of research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in Moon-Mars analogues, pilot projects, training and hands-on workshops and outreach activities.[12][13]

### EMM IgLuna 2019 Campaign

IgLuna is the first ESA Lab inter-University demonstrator project,[14] and is hosted by the Swiss Space Centre (SSC)[15] with the vision to create an analogue habitat inside lunar ice caps. The campaigns were held from 17 to 30 June 2019 and involved 18 student teams from 9 countries across Europe. The students developed modular demonstrators and tested them during a field test conducted inside the moon-like extreme environment of the Glacier Palace inside the Matterhorn glacier.

EuroMoonMars Field Campaigns[16] Year  | Campaign  | Notes

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2009  | EuroMoonMars-Eifel  | Collaboration between ILEWG, ESA ESTEC, VU Amsterdam, Austrian Space Forum OEWF, GWU, Ecole de l’Air
2010  | EuroMoonMars-DOMMEX  | Collaboration between ILEWG, ESA ESTEC, NASA Ames, VU Amsterdam, GWU, Ecole de l’Air, FloridaTec, UCL Louvain
2010  | EuroMoonMars SALM  | La Réunion Island
2011  | EuroMoonMars2011 (MDRS)  | First EMM-MDRS mission
2012  | EuroMoonMars2012 (MDRS)  | Crew: Stoker, Battler, v’t Houd, Bruneau, Cross, Maivald, Svendsen, Oltheten, Nebergall, Orgel

Support: Foing, Ehrenfreund, Elsaesser, Rammos, Rodrigues, Direito, Roling

2017  | LunAres (Poland)  | Crew: PMAS SGAC

Support @ESTEC/Mission control: Foing, Lillo, Authier, Blanc et al.

2018  | EMM-Iceland scouting campaign  | Crew: Foing, Heemskerk, Sitnikova et al.

Support: 4th Planet Logistics

2018  | EMMIHS-0 (scouting campaign)  | Crew: Rogers H&A, Foing, Wilhite, Machida

Support: BluePlanet: Ponthieux, Cox et al.

2019  | EMMIHS-I  | Crew: Musilova, Sirikan, Mulder, Weert, Burstein, Pothier

Support: BluePlanet: Foing, Ponthieux, Cox, Rogers

2019  | EMM-IgLuna campaign  | IgLuna SSC support: Benavides, EuroMoonMars VUA/ILEWG

Crew: de Winter, Heemskerk, Albers, Clement, Bois, Daeter, Vaessen, Glukhova, Sitnikova, Dimova, Wanske, van der Sanden, Foing

Support: Kruijver, Dingemans, Beentjes, Korthouwer, Moritz, Grosjean et al.

2019  | EMMIHS-II  | Crew: Musilova, Kerber, Castro, Wanske, Pouwels, d’Angelo

Support: BluePlanet: Cox et al., support@ESTEC/VUA: Ageli, Foing, Heemskerk, Beniest, Sitnikova, Preusterink

2020  | EMMIHS-III  | Crew: Musilova M., Brasileiro L., Edison K., Heemskerk M&R, Rajkakati P.

Support: BluePlanet & ESTEC/VUA

2020  | EMMIHS-IV  | Crew: to be confirmed

Support: BluePlanet & ESTEC/VUA

2021  | CHILL-ICE  | Crew I: Kerber, Elwertowska, Poli

Crew II: Cardinaux, Smith, Christianen

Mission Control: Pouwels, Heemskerk, Kerber, Weert, Downes

## See also

* Exploration of the Moon
* International Mars Exploration Working Group

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 David, Leonard (31 July 2006). "Multi-Nation Moon Collaboration Backed". https://www.space.com/2688-multi-nation-moon-collaboration-backed.html.
2. ↑ INTERNATIONAL LUNAR EXPLORATION WORKING GROUP (ILEWG)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Global Robotic Village & International Lunar Bases Nov 2009
4. ↑ David, Leonard (1 December 2004). "Lunar Robotic Village, Moon Base Gains International Support". https://www.space.com/564-lunar-robotic-village-moon-base-gains-international-support.html.
5. ↑ "NASA/ADS". https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=ilewg declarations&sort=date desc, bibcode desc&p_=0.
6. ↑ Foing, B. H.; EuroMoonMars 2018-2019 Team (2019). "EuroMoonmars Instruments, Research, Field Campaigns, and activities 2017-2019". 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019 (2132): 3090. Bibcode: 2019LPI....50.3090F. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/3090.pdf.
7. ↑ Boche-Sauvan, L.; Pletser, V.; Foing, B. H.; Team, Eurogeomars (2009). "Human Aspects and Habitat Studies from EuroGeoMars Campaign" (in en). EGUGA: 13323. Bibcode: 2009EGUGA..1113323B.
8. ↑ "ILEWG" (in en-US). https://moonbasealliance.com/ilewg.
9. ↑ "Emmihs-esa" (in nl). https://emmihs-esa.webnode.nl/.
10. ↑ "Henk Rogers" (in en-US). https://moonbasealliance.com/henk-rogers.
11. ↑ "Mission Commander Talks Latest Research at HI-SEAS Habitat | PISCES Hawaii" (in en). https://pacificspacecenter.com/mission-commander-talks-latest-research-at-hi-seas-habitat/.
12. ↑ "EMM IMA HI-SEAS campaign February 2019". https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/EPSC-DPS2019-1152-1.pdf.
13. ↑ Foing, Bernard H. (2018). "Experimental Training and Capacity Building: EuroMoonMars Workshops and Field Simulations 2016-2018" (in en). Cosp 42: PCB.1–6–18-6. Bibcode: 2018cosp...42E1085F.
14. ↑ Benavides, Tatiana; Heemskerk, Marc; Foing, Bernard; De Winter, Bram (2019). "IGLUNA - Habitat in Ice: An ESA_Lab project hosted by the SSC" (in en). EGUGA: 17807. Bibcode: 2019EGUGA..2117807B.
15. ↑ "IGLUNA - a space habitat" (in en-US). https://www.spacecenter.ch/igluna/.
16. ↑ "EuroMoonMars Extreme Field Analogue Campaigns". https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1566003/1643649/eslab2017-abstract+Foing+et+al+1.pdf/65ed88f6-43ea-a3b2-c2d8-9c708da840da.

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