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Apr 10, 2018
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Sherrit, Stewart; Bao, Xiaoqi; Jackson, Shannon; Metz, Brandon; Simonini, Alan, 2018, "Auto-Gopher-2 – An Autonomous Wireline Rotary Piezo-Percussive Deep Drilling Mechanism", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/46258, ASCE Earth and Space 2018, Cleveland, Ohio, April 9-12, 2018, JPL Open Repository
Drilling deep into the subsurface of planetary bodies in the Solar System for samples acquisition enables critical capabilities for future NASA exploration missions in its quest to understand the origins of the Solar System and potentially the search for life. Such planetary bodi... |
Mar 4, 2018
Badescu, Mircea; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Sherrit, Stewart; Jackson, Shannon; Metz, Brandon; Simonini, Alan; Bao, Xiaoqi; Zacny, Kris; Mellerowicz, Bolek; Kim, Daniel; Paulsen, Gale L., 2018, "Auto-Gopher-II – A wireline rotary-hammer ultrasonic drill that operates autonomously", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/48053, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Denver, Colorado, March 4-8, 2018, JPL Open Repository
An important challenge of exploring the solar system is the ability to penetrate at great depths the subsurface of planetary bodies for sample collection. The requirements of the drilling system are minimal mass, volume and energy consumption. To address this challenge, a deep dr... |
Mar 4, 2018
Lee, Hyeong Jae; Bao, Xiaoqi; Sherrit, Stewart; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Jackson, Shannon, 2018, "Piezoelectric Charging and Wireless Communication", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/48043, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Denver, Colorado, March 4-8, 2018, JPL Open Repository
Modern medicine is undergoing a revolution in the application of new sensor capabilities for aiding in diagnosis of specific conditions and monitoring a variety of informative vital signs. In the past, many of the measurements were limited by what could be accomplished externally... |
Mar 4, 2018
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Sherrit, Stewart; Bao, Xiaoqi; Lindsey, Cameron; Kutzer, Thomas; Salazar, Eduardo, 2018, "Synchronous Separation, Seaming, Sealing and Sterilization (S4) using Brazing for Sample Containerization and Planetary Protection", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/48045, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Denver, Colorado, March 4-8, 2018, JPL Open Repository
The return of samples back to Earth in future missions would require protection of our planet from the risk of bringing uncontrolled biological materials back with the samples. This protection would require “breaking the chain of contact (BTC)”, where any returned material reachi... |
Mar 26, 2017
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Bao, Xiaoqi; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Sherrit, Stewart; Freeman, David; Campos, Sergio, 2017, "Synchronous Separation, Seaming, Sealing and Sterilization (S4) using Brazing for Sample Containerization and Planetary Protection", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/46257, 2017 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, Portland, Oregon, March 25-29, 2017, JPL Open Repository
The potential return of samples back to Earth from other planetary bodies would be based on planetary protection requirements that vary depending on the type of body [1]. Potential Mars Sample Return would require the protection of our planet from backward contamination. To fulfi... |
Mar 26, 2017
Badescu, Mircea; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Sherrit, Stewart; Bao, Xiaoqi; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Jackson, Shannon; Chesin, Jacob; Zacny, Kris; Paulsen, Gale, 2017, "Auto-Gopher-II – an Autonomous Wireline Rotary-Hammer Ultrasonic Drill", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/46252, 2017 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, Portland, Oregon, March 25-29, 2017, JPL Open Repository
Developing technologies that would enable future NASA exploration missions to penetrate deeper into the subsurface of planetary bodies for sample collection is of great importance. Performing these tasks while using minimal mass/volume systems and with low energy consumption is a... |
Mar 26, 2017
Bao, Xiaoqi; Badescu, Mircea; Sherrit, Stewart; Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Campos, Sergio, 2017, "Heating and Thermal Control of Brazing Technique to Break Contamination Path for Potential Mars Sample Return", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/46253, 2017 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, Portland, Oregon, March 25-29, 2017, JPL Open Repository
The potential return of Mars sample material is of great interest to the planetary science community, as it would enable extensive analysis of samples with highly sensitive laboratory instruments. It is important to make sure such a mission concept would not bring any living micr... |
Feb 22, 2017
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Bao, Xiaoqi; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Sherrit, Stewart, 2017, "Ocean world sampling and data communication through significant ice depths", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/47375, Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, February 22-23, 2017, JPL Open Repository
No abstract provided |
Oct 10, 2016
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Badescu, Mircea; Bao, Xiaoqi; Chang, Zensheu; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Lih, Shyh-Shiuh; Sherrit, Stewart, 2016, "The JPL's Electroactive Technologies Group and its NDEAA lab", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/47160, Electroactive Technologies Group Meeting, Pasadena, California, Ocrtober 10, 2016, JPL Open Repository
No abstract provided |
Jun 5, 2016
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Zacny, Kris; Badescu, Mircea; Lee, Hyeong Jae; Sherrit, Stewart; Bao, Xiaoqi; Freeman, David; Paulsen, Gale L.; Beegle, Luther, 2016, "Auto-gopher-2 - wireline deep sampler driven by percussive piezoelectric actuator and rotary EM motors", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/46125, CIMTEC 2016 - 7th Forum on New Materials, Perugia, Italy, June 5-9, 2016, JPL Open Repository
Two of the key purposes of future NASA’s solar system exploration of planetary bodies are the search for potentially preserved bio-signatures and for habitable regions. To address these objectives, a biologically inspired wireline deep rotary-percussive drill, called Auto-Gopher,... |
