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Mar 5, 2022
Brooks, Sawyer; Litwin, Todd; Biesiadecki, Jeffrey; Abcouwer, Neil; Del Sesto, Tyler; McHenry, Michael; Myint, Steven; Twu, Philip; Wai, Dennis, 2022, "Testing Mars 2020 Flight Software and Hardware in the Surface System Development Environment", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55983, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The Mars 2020 (M2020) Perseverance Rover is NASA's most advanced planetary rover mission to date. It includes a novel Sample Caching Subsystem (SCS) which will collect rock cores for possible future return to Earth, as well as an improved mobility system with enhanced autonomous... |
Mar 5, 2022
Milkovich, Sarah M.; Stack, Kathryn M.; Sun, Vivian Z.; Maxwell, Kimberly; Kronyak, Rachel; Schnadt, Sara L.; Steadman, Kimberly; Spanovich, Nicole, 2022, "Balancing Predictive and Reactive Science Planning for Mars 2020 Perseverance", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56162, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The design of the science planning process for a space science mission needs to find a balance between operational and resource constraints and scientific decision-making. Science planning has previously been characterized as either predictive or reactive. Predictive science plan... |
Mar 5, 2022
Lawler, Christopher; Khan, Shaheer A.; Schellpfeffer, Maria L.; Bairstow, Sarah H.; Ortega, Carolyn A.; Ridenhour, Flora; Alonge, Nora; Seal, David A.; Voskanian, Vic; Ramanathan, Keshav, 2022, "The Psyche Planning Software Subsystem: Creating a Robust Toolset for a Discovery-class Mission", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55991, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
Psyche is a Discovery-class mission to the small metal-rich asteroid (16) Psyche, and is slated to launch in 2022. Psyche, like many missions, requires low-cost activity planning and sequence generation that serves as the backbone to overall uplink design. Such tools must be main... |
Mar 5, 2022
Lefland, Mallory S; Stehura, Aaron, 2022, "Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing Software Implementation", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55958, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
On February 18th, 2021, the Mars 2020 project's Perseverance Rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface after nearly eight years of development. The Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) System largely leveraged heritage from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) ED... |
Mar 5, 2022
Atha, Deegan; Swan, R. Michael; Didier, Annie; Hasnain, Zaki; Ono, Masahiro, 2022, "Multi-Mission Terrain Classifier for Safe Rover Navigation and Automated Science", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56173, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
We previously presented Soil Property and Object Classification (SPOC), a machine learning-based terrain classifier for Mars rovers, for automatically segmenting rover images by its surface type such as sand and bedrock. This paper presents a number of practical improvements to p... |
Mar 5, 2022
Slingerland, Philip; Perry, Lauren; Kaufman, James; Bycroft, Benjamen; Linstead, Erik; Mandrake, Lukas; Doran, Gary; Goel, Ashish; Feather, Martin; Fesq, Lorraine; Ono, Hiro; Amini, Rashied, 2022, "Adapting a Trusted AI Framework to Space Mission Autonomy", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55953, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pro- posed for new and future capabilities in space missions, the question of how to trust AI-enabled space autonomy has been explored. Recently, a collaboration between The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) and NASA’s Jet Propulsio... |
Mar 5, 2022
Mckinley, Ian M; Allen, Gregory D.; Rosas, Rogelio; Andrade, Andres, 2022, "Thermal Design of the Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (TIRS) Instrument on PREFIRE", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55929, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) consists of two 6U CubeSats that each host a Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (TIRS) instrument. The CubeSats are scheduled for launch in March and October of 2023. The purpose of the TIRS instrument is to make spectr... |
Mar 5, 2022
Maxwell, Jennifer L; Dahya, Neil; Imken, Travis; Mase, Robert; Oh, David; Safavizadeh, Melody; Solish, Benjamin; Stone, Henry; Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.; Lord, Peter, 2022, "Psyche Project Implementation During the COVID Pandemic", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55972, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
In January 2017, “Psyche: Journey to a Metal World” was selected for implementation as part of NASA’s Discovery program. The Psyche mission will utilize electric propulsion with SPT-140 Hall thrusters to rendezvous and orbit the metal-rich asteroid (16) Psyche, in the main astero... |
Mar 5, 2022
Drouin, Brian J; Kahn, Brian; Lim, Boon; Merrelli, Aronne; Nelson, Ethan; Quinn, Greg; Nagle, Fred; L'Ecuyer, Tristan, 2022, "Orbital Trade Study for the PREFIRE Mission", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55961, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) is a low-cost cubesat-based Earth Science mission selected for rapid implementation through NASAs Earth Ventures-Instrument program. Two cubesats carrying thermal infrared spectrometers (TIRS) in polar orbits will... |
Mar 5, 2022
Girerd, Andre R; Kuhn, Stephen; Roth, Brian; Gaines, Dan; Scandore, Steve; Cummings, David; Mendoza, Ricardo; Lefland, Mallory; Bareh, Magdy; Siegfriedt, Rebekah; Lenda, Matthew; Reich, Kevin; Shah, Biren; Bohannon, Emily, 2022, "Cross-Cutting Flight Infrastructure Improvements on M2020", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56001, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
Mars2020 (M2020) was formulated as a mission that leveraged as much Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) heritage as possible, while focusing major new development efforts on the original and unique elements needed to accomplish the different mission objectives. Well publicized examples... |
