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Mar 2, 2024
Vandi Verma, 2024, "Enabling Long & Precise Drives for The Perseverance Mars Rover via Onboard Global Localization", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.V3LJNP, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
The Perseverance Mars rover needs to drive long distances between regions of scientific interest to collect a diverse set of samples. Position knowledge is needed for navigating to the region of interest. Planetary mobile robots accumulate position uncertainty as they move. Globa... |
Mar 2, 2024
Evan Ruderman, 2024, "Redundant Flight Computer and File Partition Maintenance Design for the Mars2020 Mission", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.PZ8DKX, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
The Mars2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with a variety of redundant avionics to ensure a reliable backup option in anomalous scenarios. Of major importance is the Rover Compute Element (RCE) which includes the primary RAD750 flight computer, nonvolatile memory storage, and in... |
Mar 2, 2024
David Sternberg, 2024, "Development of the Simulation for Analysis of Autonomy at a System-level (SAAS)", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.0J8G5E, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
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Mar 2, 2024
Alex Davis, 2024, "Prometheus: An Io Plume Sample Return Concept", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.SS1ZY8, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
Volcanic plumes on Io have been observed during every spacecraft encounter from Voyager to Juno. The material within the plume ejecta provides direct insight into Io’s composition in the form of volcanic gases and pyroclastic grains. Return of these ejecta materials would provide... |
Mar 2, 2024
Shirley Hart, 2024, "Highlights of the Psyche Environmental Assurance Program", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.CEF9HH, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
Environmental requirements for the Psyche missionwere established early in the program, and a comprehensiveenvironmental test and analysis implementation program wasdeveloped as the spacecraft design matured. Several designscope changes happened during development (for example,ch... |
Mar 2, 2024
Richard Arnold, 2024, "Development Robotic Arm System Testbed for the Mars Sample Return Campaign", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.SZ5UF4, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
The NASA-ESA led Mars Sample Return campaign will be the first to deliver samples from another planet to thousands of scientists worldwide who will rewrite textbooks with their discoveries. A critical step in the campaign is the transfer of sample tubes from the surface of Mars t... |
Mar 2, 2024
Ashley Madni, 2024, "Surface Timeline Management and Analysis for the Mars Sample Return Mission", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.NIL5WR, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
The Mars Sample Return Campaign being planned jointly by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency seeks to return samples of Martian rocks and atmosphere from the surface of Mars to Earth for subsequent scientific analysis. It is compri... |
Mar 2, 2024
Alfred Nash, 2024, "Influence Diagrams for Optimal Decision Making in Early Science Space Mission Concept Development", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.AWRH4S, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
Concept design maturation is an initial phase in theengineering design process that revolves around decisionmaking. In the context of science space mission conceptdevelopment, decision trees play a crucial role. The branches indecision trees are interdependent, meaning that the p... |
Mar 2, 2024
Sumita Nandi, 2024, "Demonstration of Non-Regenerative Pseudo-Noise Ranging in Parker Solar Probe and DART Missions", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.LZOSZ8, 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, JPL Open Repository
Delivery of radiometric data to Earth for tracking and navigation applications is an essential function of the telecommunications subsystem of a spacecraft. For deep space missions, both Doppler and ranging methods are used to determine the spacecraft distance from Earth and traj... |
Mar 2, 2024
Melissa Soriano, 2024, "Europa Clipper Tones", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.XMFNIE, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
The Europa Clipper mission will study Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Europa Clipper downlink communications will typically be X-band and Ka-band telemetry. However, there are a few key scenarios in the mission where telemetry will not close the link: Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI) and so... |
