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Autonomous Robot Swarms for Off-World Construction and Resource Mining
Jekan Thangavelautham
Kick-starting the space economy requires identification of critical resources that can lower the cost of space transport, sustain logistic bases and communication relay networks be…
Investigating Asteroid Surface Geophysics with an Ultra-Low-Gravity Centrifuge in Low-Earth Orbit
Stephen R. Schwartz, Jekan Thangavelautham, Erik Asphaug +3
Near-Earth small-body mission targets 162173 Ryugu, 101955 Bennu, and 25143 Itokawa produce gravity fields around 4 orders of magnitude below that of Earth and their irregular shap…
Planetary Exploration Using CubeSat Deployed Sailplanes
Adrien Bouskela, Alexandre Kling, Aman Chandra +3
Exploration of terrestrial planets such as Mars are conducted using orbiters, landers and rovers. Cameras and instruments onboard orbiters have enabled global mapping of Mars at lo…
Development and Testing of an Engineering Model for an Asteroid Hopping Robot
Greg Wilburn, Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham
The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Two of the main questions from the Decadal Survey pertain to what the "initial…
Autonomous Multirobot Technologies for Mars Mining Base Construction and Operation
Jekan Thangavelautham, Aman Chandra, Erik Jensen
Beyond space exploration, the next critical step towards living and working in space requires developing a space economy. One important challenge with this space-economy is ensurin…
Towards End-To-End Design of Spacecraft Swarms for Small-Body Reconnaissance
Ravi Teja Nallapu, Jekan Thangavelautham
The exploration of small bodies in the Solar System is a high priority planetary science. Asteroids, comets, and planetary moons yield important information about the evolution of…