An Augmented Reality Guidance and Operations System to Support the Artemis Program and Future EVAs

As technology becomes more pervasive in today's society connecting nearly every element of one's life, it is essential to think of ways to apply the same paradigm to Space exploration and the spacesuit in particular. The solution presented in this paper describes ARGOS, a guidance and operations system that utilizes an augmented reality device to support an astronaut during an EVA. This system serves as a model for future training and operational environments, describing how visualization and interaction methodologies can be coupled with distributed computing and ad-hoc networking to bring flexible cloud-computing-like features to a future generation spacesuit. The manuscript describes the system and preliminary tests.