The Environmental Development Testing program supported the development test efforts of the Mars 2020 Sampling and Caching Subsystem from May to November 2015. The engineering prototype Brassboard Corer was attached to a five degree-of-freedom robotic arm to execute a 96-test matrix of ambient and low pressure tests in the 10 ft. thermal vacuum chamber at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The Pretest, Test, and Post Test procedures are described, and some preliminary results are discussed. Data and observations from this test campaign inform the future development of the software and hardware toward the Mars 2020 flight design, including the next iteration of the rock coring drill, the Engineering Development Unit Corer.


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    Title :

    Mars 2020 sampling and caching subsystem environmental development testing and preliminary results


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    Publication date :

    2017-03-01


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    1974971 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English