The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Explorer 'LuSEE Night' is a low frequency radio astronomy experiment that will be delivered to the farside of the Moon by the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in late 2025 or early 2026. The payload system is being developed jointly by NASA and the US Department of Energy (DOE) and consists of a 4 channel, 50 MHz Nyquist baseband receiver system and 2 orthogonal ∼6m tip-to-tip electric dipole antennas. LuSEE Night will enjoy standalone operations through the lunar night, without the electromagnetic interference (EMI) of an operating lander system and antipodal to our noisy home planet.
@article{arxiv.2301.10345,
title = {LuSEE 'Night': The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment},
author = {Stuart D. Bale and Neil Bassett and Jack O. Burns and Johnny Dorigo Jones and Keith Goetz and Christian Hellum-Bye and Sven Hermann and Joshua Hibbard and Milan Maksimovic and Ryan McLean and Raul Monsalve and Paul O'Connor and Aaron Parsons and Marc Pulupa and Rugved Pund and David Rapetti and Kaja M. Rotermund and Ben Saliwanchik and Anze Slosar and David Sundkvist and Aritoki Suzuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10345},
year = {2023}
}