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Mar 5, 2022
McGarey, Patrick; Carpenter, Kalind; Nunes, Daniel; Barba, Nathan; Manthena, Raju; Krieger, Seth; Burgin, Mariko; Giersch, Louis; Grimm, Robert; Stamenkovic, Vlada, 2022, "Development of a Loop Antenna Deployment System for TEM-Based Subsurface Mars Water Detection", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56087, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The subsurface of Mars has the potential to harbor existing deposits of liquid water, which are of great interest both scientifically (in the search for life) and as resources for future astronauts living on the red planet. However, the depth to a potential subsurface aquifer may... |
Mar 5, 2022
Vilnrotter, Victor; Cheung, Kar-Ming, 2022, "Differential Ranging Experiments with NASA’s High-Gain Deep Space Network Antennas", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55054, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
Radar experiments are currently under way at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC) to determine the range of cis-lunar objects using a single high-gain 34m antenna transmitting 20 kW at X-band wavelengths, and two 34m receivers located at the GDSCC. The 34m ante... |
Mar 5, 2022
Rosette, Theresa, 2022, "“Just Do It” Mission Operations Training in a COVID World", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56083, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
“No”- “not”- “can’t do it” – these words don’t fly in M2020 Mission Operations. The M2020 Surface Mission Operations Team trained for landing the Perseverance Rover under COVID-19 remote work/mandatory stay-at-home conditions. Training activities included presenting Flight School... |
Mar 5, 2022
Verma, Vandi; Hartman, Frank; Rankin, Arturo; Maimone, Mark; Del Sesto, Tyler; Toupet, Olivier; Graser, Evan; Myint, Steven; Davis, Kevin; Klein, Douglas; Koch, Justin; Brooks, Sawyer; Bailey, Philip; Justice, Heather; Dolci, Marco; Ono, Hiro, 2022, "First 210 solar days of Mars 2020 Perseverance Robotic Operations – Mobility, Robotic Arm, Sampling, and Helicopter", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55049, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
This paper includes the summary, lessonslearned, and upcoming plans for the first 210 Mars solar days(sols) of the mission. The focus of the paper is on roboticoperations which has the primary responsibility for strategicplanning, uplink commanding and downlink analysis forrover... |
Mar 5, 2022
Culbertson, Preston; Bandyopadhyay, Saptarshi; Goel, Ashish; McGarey, Patrick; Schwager, Mac, 2022, "Multi-Robot Assembly Scheduling for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55986, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is a pro- posed ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope to be constructed on the far side of the moon. The proposed telescope will be constructed by deploying a 1km wire mesh in a 3-5km crater using a team of wall-climbing DuAxel robots. In t... |
Mar 5, 2022
Green, Robert O.; Sen, Amit; Pearson, John C.; Mouroulis, Pantazis; Patel, Saager; Sullivan, Peter; Werne, Thomas; Brenner, Michael; Mckinley, Ian; Liggett, Elliott; Rodriguez, Jose; Eastwood, Michael; Smith, Susan T.; Diaz, Ernesto; Bennett, Matthew; Pollock, Randy; Walch, Marc, 2022, "Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Visible to Short Wavelength Infrared (VSWIR) Wide Swath Instrument Concept", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56082, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The 2017 Decadal Survey: Thriving on Our Changing Planet, A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space has called new observations including global coverage VSWIR Wide Swath (VSWIR-WS) imaging spectroscopy measurements as part of the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Desig... |
Mar 5, 2022
Siegfriedt, Rebekah; Bohannon, Emily; Girerd, Andre; Trettel, Ian; Roth, Brian, 2022, "Making or Breaking a Rover: System Engineering Parameters On-Board the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55968, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
On February 18, 2021, Perseverance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s) Mars 2020 Rover, successfully landed on Mars with all systems nominal, despite the risk surrounding the over 200,000 internal flight parameters that had to be properly configured. The Perseverance team... |
Mar 5, 2022
Duffy, Elizabeth; Franz, Brian; Orzewalla, Matthew; Mathy, Greg; Parsons, David; Jandura, Louise; Moeller, Robert; Krafchak, Todd, 2022, "Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover SHERLOC Instrument Isolation System", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55970, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully landed the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover at Jezero Crater on the Martian surface. Perseverance’s main mission objective is to cache Martian rock and regolith samples in hermetically sealed tubes to be brought back to Earth by f... |
Mar 5, 2022
Delaune, Jeff H; Izraelevitz, Jacob; Sirlin, Samuel; Sternberg, David; Giersch, Louis; Tosi, Luis Phillipe; Sklyanskiy, Evgeniy; Young, Larry; Mischna, Michael; Withrow-Maser, Shannah; Mueller, Juergen; Bowman, Joshua; Wallace, Mark; Grip, Håvard; Matthies, Larry; Johnson, Wayne; Keennon, Matthew; Pipenberg, Benjamin; Patel, Harsh; Lim, Christopher; Schutte, Aaron; Cummings, Haley; Veismann, Marcel; Conley, Sarah; Bapst, Jonathan; Tzanetos, Theodore; Brockers, Roland; Jain, Abhinandan; Bayard, David; Chmielewski, Artur; Toupet, Olivier; Burdick, Joel; Gharib, Morteza; Balaram, J., 2022, "Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery at Mars Using a Jetpack", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/56005, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery (MAHD) is a new Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) architecture to enable in situ mobility for Mars science at lower cost than previous rover missions. It uses a jetpack to slow down a Mars Science Helicopter (MSH) after separation from the backshell, an... |
Mar 5, 2022
Canham, Timothy K, 2022, "The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter – A Victory for Open-Source Software", https://hdl.handle.net/2014/55998, 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 5-12, 2022, JPL Open Repository
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed a highly successful demonstration of powered flight and scouting on the surface of Mars. F Prime, JPL's open-source flight software framework, contributed to that success. This paper will detail the architecture of the flight software and t... |
