ExoGeoLab pilot Project: Lander, Rovers and Instruments
- Paper ID
6022
- author
- company
European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)
- country
The Netherlands
- year
2010
- abstract
Following ICEUM recommendations, the ExoGeoLab research pilot project has been initiated by ILEWG in the frame of a collaboration with support from ESTEC, NASA Ames, the European Space Incubator (ESI) and academic partners or SMEs innovation companies. ExoGeoLab could be used to validate concepts and external instruments from partner institutes, and included a sequence of technology and research pilot project activities. We report on results from 2009: - Data analysis and interpretation of Earth-Moon-Mars remote sensing and in-situ data, and merging of multi-scale data sets - Procurement and integration of geophysical, geo-chemical and astrobiological breadboard instruments on a surface station and rovers - Research operations and exploitation of ExoGeoLab test bench for various conceptual configurations, and support for definition and design of science surface packages We acknowledge the contribution to ILEWG ExoGeoLab pilot project from J. Page (1,4), C. Stoker(2)*, J. Zhavaleta(2)*, A. Barton P. Sarrazin(2)*, D. Blake(2), P. Poulakis(4), G. Visentin(4), P. Mahapatra (1,3), A. Noroozi(3), P. Ehrenfreund(10), J.P. Lebreton(1), T. Zegers(1), D. Koschny(1), S. Som (1), A. Barton (11), S. Peters(1,6)*, A. Borst(1,6)*, E. Monaghan(1)*, D. Wills(1)*, C. Thiel(9)*, L. Wendt(8)*, C. Gross(8)*, F. Nijman(1) , V. Pletser(5)*, C. McKay(2) , G. Davies(6), W. van Westrenen(6), E. Gill(3), M. Guglielmi(4), M. Freire(4), R. Walker(7), ILEWG ExoGeoLab team(1,4) EuroGeoMars team(1,4,5); 1) ESTEC Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, NL, 2)NASA Ames, 3)Delft TU Aerospace/ Geology and Civil Engineering , 4)ESTEC TEC Technology Dir., 5)ESTEC HSF Human Spaceflight, 6)VU Amsterdam, 7)ESTEC Education Office, 8)FU Berlin, 9)Max Planck Goettingen, 10)Leiden/GWU, 11)AOES/WLS,* EuroGeoMars crew Co-authors: B.H. Foing (1)*, P. Mahapatra (1)*, A. Barton(11), L. Boche-Sauvan(1)*, S. Som(1), J. Page(1,4), C. Stoker(2)*, J. Zhavaleta(2)*, P. Sarrazin(2)*, D. Blake(2), P. Poulakis(4), G. Visentin(4), A. Noroozi(3), P. Ehrenfreund(10), J.P. Lebreton(1), T. Zegers(1), D. Koschny(1), S. Peters(1,6)*, A. Borst(1,6)*, E. Monaghan(1)*, D. Wills(1)*, C. Thiel(9)*, L. Wendt(8)*, C. Gross(8)*, F. Nijman(1) , V. Pletser(5)*, C. McKay(2) , G. Davies(6), W. van Westrenen(6), E. Gill(3), M. Guglielmi(4), M. Freire(4), R. Walker(7), ILEWG ExoGeoLab team(1,4) & EuroGeoMars team(1,4,5); 1)ESTEC/SRE-S Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, NL, 2)NASA Ames, 3)Delft TU Aerospace/ Geology and Civil Engineering , 4)ESTEC TEC Technology Dir., 5)ESTEC HSF Human Spaceflight, 6)VU Amsterdam, 7)ESTEC Education Office, 8)FU Berlin, 9)Max Planck Goettingen, 10)Leiden/GWU, 11)AOES/WLS,* EuroGeoMars crew (Bernard.Foing@esa.int/ Fax: +31 71 565 4697)