Aurora Enabling Technologies

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Aurora Enabling Technologies

• Joost Carpay
• NIVR

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Automated Guidance,Navigation and Control

• Automated Rendezvous (sample return!)
• Entry Guidance
• Landing Guidance

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Micro-Avionics

• Mass constraints
• Flexibility
• Wildly varying environment (Mercury)

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Data Processing, Communications (1/2)

• OnBoard data reduction and Interpretations (!)
  (smart sensors)
• In situ data acquisition (from scattered sources)
• On-Board Intelligence
• Tele-Operation, Tele-presence

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Data Processing, Communications (2/2)

• European DSN
• Data Relay
• In-situ communication
• Geolocation

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Entry, Descent and Landing

• Aero TD of Hypersonic re-entries
• Advanced heatshields
• Aerocapture
• Aerobraking
• Landers, Landing technology

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Crew Aspects

• Regenerative life support systems
• Human Health issues
• Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
• Radiation Protection and Biological Effects
• Extra-Vehicular Activities

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In-Situ Resource Utilisation

• Living of the land
• Propulsion Elements (Methane, Hydrogen, Oxygen)
• Life Support (food, drink, air)

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Power Generation

• Photo Voltaic
• Mars, Jovian Moons
• Nuclear Sources
• MultiKW
• Energy Storage
• Fuel Cells

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Propulsion

• Electric Propulsion
• Solar-Thermal Orbit Transfer Stage
• Nuclear-Thermal
• Solar Sails
• Planetary Ascent and Descent
• Tethered systems (momentum transfer, Lorentz
  force
• ISRU

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Robotica, mechanics (1/2)

• Docking, assemly, inspection, repair
• Mobility
• In-Situ Investigation
• In-Situ Development
• Support to Human EVA

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Robotics, Mechanics (2/2)

• Manipulation
• Robots
• Rovers, Robot planes, moles and boats
• Dedicated Mechanisms

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Structures, Materials, Thermal Control

• Module Structures
• Lightweight, deployable, inflatable
• Assembly Techniques
• Meteoroid Shielding
• Maintainability, Repairability, Inspectability

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Conclusion

• There is a lot to do
• Netherlands need to focus, look for niches