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Critical Design Review:
AAE Senior Design Alec Spencer Critical Design Review: Science Package 6 March 2001
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Science Overview Greenhouse Pressurized Rover Mission Planning
Materials and Structure Design Assembly Pressurized Rover Mission Planning
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Greenhouse Envelope made of ETFE (ethyl-tetra-fluoro-ethylene)
Similar to Teflon Self cleaning Chemical and heat resistance Restraint device Kevlar or Spectra cables Staked into soil Floor Substrate to cover soil Foam rubber base
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Greenhouse Self-supporting inflatable geodesic dome
55 hexagon, 12 pentagon shaped pillows 3 layers of foil per pillow (outside, middle, inside) Reduces convective heat loss Redundancy if outer layer is punctured Floor and ground matting 1 cm foam rubber Reduce wear, puncture possibilities
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Greenhouse Design Used code to optimize sizing Selection criteria
1 tonne maximum mass Useable floor space Ceiling > 2m Pressure requirements Heating requirements Packed volume
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Greenhouse Design Iterated over inner radius and partial sphere angle
Computed mass of foil envelope, floor space, and ground footprint
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Code Results - Mass Includes two 25 kg space heaters and one 50 kg
pressure regulator
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Code Results – Floor Area
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Code Results - Ceiling
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Pressurized Rover Human Requirements Tanks sized for emergency
Nominal Distant Excursion Emergency Habitat Tanks sized for emergency
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Rover Power Breakdown Mobility power estimated as 0.1 W-hr/kg/km
Methanol/LOX energy density 2129 W-hr/kg 2093 W-hr/L
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Mission Planning Goals Maximize science return
Minimum 10,000 km on rover odometer Cover maximum area on distant excursions
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Mission Planning Built around flexibility 42 Full rest days
Distant Excursions 14 days in rover 2 days rest 14 days analysis 1 day rest 78% of days on Mars are spent doing science
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Mission Design 3 1 days travel to next site (167 km travel per day)
1 day stay at inner radius 2 days stay at mid and outer radius Max area covered Flexible schedule No need to stop needlessly 8 6 333 km 5 1 167 km 10 9 2 4 7
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