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Mar 2, 2024
Emily Newman, 2024, "Maintaining Mars Rover Operations Software On A Budget", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.MWX71R, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
This paper characterizes and discusses the software scripts and tools used by the Mars Science Laboratory rover planner team, and describes the effort to unify the management of this tool suite. Rover Planners have historically used numerous command line tools to aid them in desi... |
Mar 2, 2024
Paulo Younse, 2024, "Mars Sample Return Sample Handling Technology Development", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.X2U4BC, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
No abstract available. |
Mar 2, 2024
Paul Carter, 2024, "An Expanded Deep Space Relay Architecture for Improved Communication and Navigation", https://doi.org/10.48577/jpl.MWVMKD, IEEE Aerospace Conference Big Sky, Montana, JPL Open Repository
In our previous paper, a baseline relay architecture was developed to provide optical communication with Mars and trilateration-based navigation services to deep space users [1]. The baseline architecture used Mars-leading and trailing orbits to ensure continuous optical communic... |
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
No abstract available. |
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... |