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Mobile and Remote Sensing (MARS) --
The Mobile and Remote Sensing Development team provides a low overhead, fast turn around, rapid design and prototyping, "Skunk Works" style capability for the creation of certified and radiation hard space flight hardware. Team capabilities included imbedded microcontroller and DSP code developoment; development of RF communication hardware, data stream manipulations, and data logging interfaces; and flight certified electronics soldering and assembly.
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POCs: Mike Krasowski, Larry Greer, Joe Flatico, Dan Spina
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Cratos’ Mobility Operations Demonstrated in ISRU Field Tests at Mauna Kea Volcano --
Cratos, a mobile Load, Haul, Dump technology development vehicle, performed regolith excavation, haul, and delivery; crater wall ascent and descent; and compacted simulant excavation mobility operations at a remote test site on the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, as a part of the In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) field tests. Cratos, a tracked, remotely controlled vehicle was developed at GRC through a collaborative effort between RHI, MAC, RXN, REC, DER, and TFOME. Cratos's actuation systems, telemetry, power, sensors, video, processing and teleoperation systems were designed and built by the RHI Mobile and Remote Sensing (MARS) lab at GRC. The digger was designed by RHI and developed by TFOME. Cratos demonstrated that a low power mobility system can successfully operate for up to six hours on a single charge operating in a lunar analog test site. Operated by TFOME personnel, from an excavation site about 100 meters from a reactor, Cratos was able to deliver one load of regolith in a twenty minute round trip and is capable of excavating up to 30 kg of regolith per dig. This equates to 540 kg of regolith delivered during a six hour operation utilizing Cratos's 17 amp hour battery system.
POCs: Mike Krasowski, Larry Greer, Joe Flatico, Dan Spina
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