LunarVader: Development and Testing of Lunar Drill in Vacuum Chamber and in Lunar Analog Site of Antarctica

Zacny, K.; Paulsen, G.; Szczesiak, M.; Craft, J.; Chu, P.; Glass, B.; Dávila, Alfonso F.; Marinova, M. M.; Pollard, W. H.; Jackson, W. Andrew

doi:10.1061/(asce)as.1943-5525.0000212

Cited by 58 publications

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“…Similar drilling field test campaigns (Gunes-Lasnet et al, 2014;Zacny et al, 2013) have highlighted important operational issues that are very difficult to investigate in the controlled conditions of laboratory tests. Alongside the developments for the PROSPECT application on Luna-27, ESA shall also investigate opportunities for implementing the package, or elements of the package, in other mission scenarios such as Lunar Polar Sample Return and potentially on mobile platforms.…”

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confidence: 97%

Accessing, Drilling and Operating at the Lunar South Pole: Status of European Plans and Activities

Fisackerly

Visentin

Houdou

et al. 2015

Earth and Space 2014

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Exploration of the Moon is considered a high priority in the overall strategy of the European Space Agency (ESA), together with activities in Low Earth Orbit and missions to Mars. The Lunar South Polar region presents key opportunities for scientific discovery and advancement of exploration capabilities, but is also a uniquely challenging operational environment for robotic missions and for human explorers. ESA has placed accessing this environment and the surface material found there as a high priority. In this context ESA is discussing with international partners, in particular with ROSCOSMOS, how these ambitions might be realized in cooperation. To support this work ESA is engaged in a range of mission level activities with ROSCOSMOS on the Luna-27/Luna-Resurs Lander mission as well as Lunar Polar Sample Return (LPSR). In addition to this ESA is undertaking, with European institutes and industries, a set of specific development activities which seek to address the challenges of operating in the challenging environment of the Lunar South Pole.

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Section: Next Stepsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Accessing, Drilling and Operating at the Lunar South Pole: Status of European Plans and Activities

Fisackerly

Visentin

Houdou

et al. 2015

Earth and Space 2014

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“…This is the single most important factor limiting the penetration depth using continuous drill string approach to approximately 10 m or so. A possible solution is to incorporate so called the "bite" approach, which is similar to pecking in machining [5]. In this approach, the drill is periodically retracted to clear chips.…”

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Wireline deep drill for exploration of Mars, Europa, and Enceladus

Zacny

Paulsen

Bar‐Cohen

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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“…• We have already demonstrated drilling in ice and ice cemented ground at rates of >1 kg/hr and energy of 1 kg per 100 Whr (Paulsen et al, 2011;Zacny et al, 2011). Higher penetration rates are possible with more powerful actuators (e.g.…”

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Mobile In-Situ Water Extractor (MISWE) for Mars, Moon, and Asteroids In Situ Resource Utilization

Zacny

Chu

Paulsen

et al. 2012

AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) facilitates planetary exploration by drawing needed resources, such as water, from the local environment. This work presents a 3-step in-situ water recovery approach: 1) mining the soil using deep fluted auger, 2) extracting the water from soil within the flutes, and 3) discarding the soil before transporting the water to a main storage facility. Drilling in icy soil and ice has already been demonstrated in vacuum chambers by the authors. This paper focuses on the second critical step: water extraction from the icy soil or ice within the deep flutes. This paper reports on tests demonstrating efficient collection of water from ice-bearing soil under Mars conditions. The water recovery Mobile In Situ Water Extractor (MISWE) breadboard collected as much as 92% of the water initially present in the soil, and required as little as 0.9 Whr/g of energy (80% efficient compared to theoretical). The extraction process took approximately 40 min.

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LunarVader: Development and Testing of Lunar Drill in Vacuum Chamber and in Lunar Analog Site of Antarctica

Cited by 58 publications

References 15 publications

Accessing, Drilling and Operating at the Lunar South Pole: Status of European Plans and Activities

Accessing, Drilling and Operating at the Lunar South Pole: Status of European Plans and Activities

Wireline deep drill for exploration of Mars, Europa, and Enceladus

Mobile In-Situ Water Extractor (MISWE) for Mars, Moon, and Asteroids In Situ Resource Utilization

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