Over the course of more than 10 years of continuous operations on the Martian surface, the operations team for the Mars Exploration Rovers has encountered and overcome many challenges. The twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, designed for a Martian surface mission of three months in duration, far outlived their life expectancy. Spirit explored for six years and Opportunity still operates and, in January 2014, celebrated the 10th anniversary of her landing. As with any machine that far outlives its design life, each rover has experienced a series of failures and degradations attributable to age, use, and environmental exposure. This paper reviews the failures and degradations experienced by the two rovers and the measures taken by the operations team to correct, mitigate, or surmount them to enable continued exploration and discovery.


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    Titel :

    Mars Exploration Rovers 2004-2013: Evolving Operational Tactics Driven by Aging Robotic Systems


    Beteiligte:
    Townsend, Julie (Autor:in) / Seibert, Michael (Autor:in) / Bellutta, Paolo (Autor:in) / Ferguson, Eric (Autor:in) / Forgette, Daniel (Autor:in) / Herman, Jennifer (Autor:in) / Justice, Heather (Autor:in) / Keuneke, Matthew (Autor:in) / Sosland, Rebekah (Autor:in) / Stroupe, Ashley (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2014) ; 2014 ; Pasadena, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2014-05-05


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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