Desert Research and Technology Studies (DRATS) is a multi-year series of NASA tests that deploy planetary surface hardware and exercise mission and science operations in difficult conditions to advance human and robotic exploration capabilities. DRATS 2011 (Aug. 30-Sept. 9, 2011) tested strategies for human exploration of microgravity targets such as near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). Here we report the crew perspective on the impact of simulated microgravity operations on our capability to conduct field geology.
Desert Rats 2011 Mission Simulation: Effects of Microgravity Operational Modes on Fields Geology Capabilities
43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2012 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States
2012-03-19
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Historical synopses of desert RATS 1997–2010 and a preview of desert RATS 2011
Online Contents | 2013
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