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The exploration of small bodies in the Solar System is a high priorityplanetary science. Asteroids, comets, and planetary moons yield importantinformation about the evolution of the Solar System. Additionally, they couldprovide resources for a future space economy. While much research has gone intoexploring asteroids and comets, dedicated spacecraft missions to planetarymoons are few and far between. There are three fundamental challenges of aspacecraft mission to the planetary moons: The first challenge is that thespheres of influence of most moons (except that of Earth) are small and, inmany cases, virtually absent. The second is that many moons are tidally lockedto their planets, which means that an observer on the planet will have anentire hemisphere, which is always inaccessible. The third challenge is that ata given time about half of the region will be in the Sun's shadow. Therefore, asingle spacecraft mission to observe the planetary moon cannot provide completecoverage. Such a complex task can be solved using a swarm approach, where themapping task is delegated to multiple low-cost spacecraft. Clearly, the designof a swarm mission for such a dynamic environment is challenging. For thisreason, we have proposed the Integrated Design Engineering & Automation ofSwarms (IDEAS) software to perform automated end-to-end design of swarmmissions. Specifically, it will use a sub-module known as the Automated SwarmDesigner module to find optimal swarm configurations suited for a givenmission. In our previous work, we have developed the Automated Swarm Designmodule to find swarm configurations for asteroid mapping operations. In thiswork, we will evaluate the capability of the Automated Swarm module to designmissions to planetary moons.

Towards End-To-End Design of Spacecraft Swarms for Small-Body Reconnaissance