IPSE, Italian Package for Scientific Experiments, is an autonomous micro-laboratory for Martian soil and environment parameter analysis. The leading concept is to implement a modularity philosophy in the design of the main subsystems, in order to allow the maximum level of de-coupling between IPSE and the experiments, being able to support very different types of payload and suit each launch opportunity. This paper will provide an overview of a possible design of IPSE. The current design is based on an accommodation opportunity formerly hypothesised on NASA Mars Sample Return Mission, scheduled for 2003 and now being reconsidered. A future opportunity is under consideration.
Ipse: a robotic micro laboratory for in situ science on Mars
DEBEI, STEFANO;ANGRILLI, FRANCESCO;
2000
Abstract
IPSE, Italian Package for Scientific Experiments, is an autonomous micro-laboratory for Martian soil and environment parameter analysis. The leading concept is to implement a modularity philosophy in the design of the main subsystems, in order to allow the maximum level of de-coupling between IPSE and the experiments, being able to support very different types of payload and suit each launch opportunity. This paper will provide an overview of a possible design of IPSE. The current design is based on an accommodation opportunity formerly hypothesised on NASA Mars Sample Return Mission, scheduled for 2003 and now being reconsidered. A future opportunity is under consideration.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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