2020
DOI: 10.1017/aog.2020.67
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The Autonomous Pinger Unit of the Acoustic Navigation Network in EnEx-RANGE: an autonomous in-ice melting probe with acoustic instrumentation

Abstract: The Autonomous Pinger Unit (APU) is an electro-thermal drill with acoustic instrumentation developed for the project EnEx-RANGE in view of a future space mission for the sub-surface exploration of Saturn's moon Enceladus. A main goal is the development of navigation technology for an acoustic guidance system allowing maneuvering a probe through glacial ice. In total 13 APUs were built and tested in terrestrial analog scenarios on alpine glaciers. The APUs form a spatially distributed network that defines a sys… Show more

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“…The transducer design of the APU is very similar to that of the AM. Differences are the number of piezo discs (8 compared to 16) and the head-to-tail mass ratio (3:1 compared to 1:2.6) [12].…”
Section: Output Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The transducer design of the APU is very similar to that of the AM. Differences are the number of piezo discs (8 compared to 16) and the head-to-tail mass ratio (3:1 compared to 1:2.6) [12].…”
Section: Output Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The range of the AM is determined by the distance at which a minimum required SNR can be reached. During a measurement at the Langenferner glacier in Italy, the APU achieved an SNR of 100 at a distance of ≈ 30 m from APU to APU by averaging 64 waveforms [12]. The attenuation length of the glacial ice was measured to be ≈ 8.85 ± 0.95 m [13].…”
Section: Range Estimationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The technology of the acoustic calibration system is based on experience with the EnEx-RANGE project, in which an acoustic localization system for melting probes had been developed [7]. The system for the IceCube Upgrade consists of 10 AMs distributed over the new strings, as can be seen in figure 1a.…”
Section: Overall Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, we replace the SNR by a scaling factor • 0 . Here 0 = 95 × 10 3 m corresponds to the SNR from the previous known EnEx-RANGE emitter-receiver-system that resulted in = 25 : 1 measured at a distance of 38 m on a temperate alpine glacier of = 8.25 m attenuation [7]. After distance and attenuation correction, this defines 0 and the baseline is = 1.…”
Section: Pos(icrc2021)1059mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While conventional electrothermal drills operate in a liquid borehole, meaning the drill can be raised and lowered within a liquid-filled borehole, the vast majority of electrothermal drill systems developed in recent decades operate in refrozen boreholes, meaning that the borehole refreezes behind the drill as it penetrates (Aamot, 1967(Aamot, , 1968Philberth, 1974;Morton and Lightfoot, 1975;Hansen and Kersten, 1984;Kelty, 1995;Zimmerman et al, 2001;Ulamec et al, 2007;Bentley et al, 2009;Dachwald et al, 2014;Stone et al, 2014Stone et al, , 2018Weinstock et al, 2021;Winebrenner et al, 2013;Wirtz and Hildebrandt, 2016). This reflects a general trend, especially in the past 2 decades, of hot-point research being driven towards electrothermal drills of lower specific power suitable for extraterrestrial investigations with refrozen boreholes (Fig.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%