Daily Report: NASA Pressurized Rover Analog Study Underway
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 21, 2009
A twin otter arrived today with four new arrivals - Addy Overbeeke and Montira Satienpoch (both of Hamilton Sundstrand), Dr Mark Helper (University of Austin) and Dr Essam Heggy (Planetary Scientist, JPL). Addy and Montira will be attaching a spacesuit to the back of the Mars-1 Humvee Rover to mimic NASA's latest lunar rover prototype. Dr Helper and Dr Heggy will be involved in the Mars-1 Humvee traverses with the new spacesuit hatch.
Lots of activities are taking place simultaneously. Matt Bamsey (Univ. of Guelph / CSA) and Tom Graham (Univ. of Guelph) closed the greenhouse today and are preparing for their flight out tomorrow. Drs Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul (both faculty at the University of Florida) are also on their last day, and are packing up and preparing for their departure.
Paul Furgale (UTIAS) and Braden Stenning (UTIAS) did a 4 kilometer navigation with their robot near the HMP Research Station, to get a data set collection. Pat Carle (University of Toronoto) and Marwan Hussein (systems engineer, OPTECH) did some lidar scans today, north of tent city. Laura Thomson (University of Western Ontario) and Dr Tim Barfoot (PI, UTIAS) headed into the lake bed sediments, guided by Ben Audlaluk (from Grise Fiord).
Drs Brian Glass and Sarah Thompson (both from NASA Ames) drilled the first hole of the season with the CRUX drill. Matt Turnock (MSc Student in E-Health, McMaster Univ.) reminded us that today is saliva day, as he continues collecting data for the cortisol stress study.
Louis-Phillipe Durocher (Space System Engineer, CSA) gave an after dinner talk titled Repeatable Automated Deployment of Space Systems. He explained that the increasing complexity of software is a major cost driver for space missions, and talked about strategies to reduce that cost.
Photo Set: HMP RS - July 21, 2009
