Testing of the Planetary Volatiles Extractor (PVEx)

Vendiola, V.; Zacny, K.; Morrison, P.; Wang, A.; Yaggi, B.; Hattori, Akio; Paz, Aaron

doi:10.1061/9780784481899.045

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“…The DVT is a tube-shaped harvester instrument arranged on the left front side of the ASD, which is designed to sip small dust particles while the DH is extracting dust based on the corer [17] that produces steam propulsion. Because this equipment requires some drilling, the DVT collects refined dust and the sipping tube heats up to produce steam.…”

Section: F Dust Vacuum Tubementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual Design for Deflecting a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid with a Space Duster

Santos

Zheng

et al. 2021

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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The deflecting asteroid by dusting (DAD) mission addresses the challenges of deflecting a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) that has a large probability of impacting Earth. It is an innovative and mass-minimalist approach to exploit PHAs by using the dusting deflection method. This conceptual design is developed based on an asteroid space duster, which is a space miner that is equipped with dust mining equipment, path-finding systems, and robotic capabilities, that converts available materials into mining prospects. It also stores energy to power the space miner and produces thrust to deflect the asteroid. The primary goals of DAD are to use the dust-to-thrust dusting technique on a PHA and to characterize and measure the deflection caused by the dusting. The 99942 Apophis is used as the reference asteroid in the dust-to-thrust study to test the feasibility of using the approach for deflecting PHAs. There are currently no methods that continuously use the dust-to-thrust approach from an asteroid mining perspective in comparison to the existing deflecting asteroid concepts. This unsolved problem is the focus of the DAD-related study.

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Section: F Dust Vacuum Tubementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual Design for Deflecting a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid with a Space Duster

Santos

Zheng

et al. 2021

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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“…Two rover-mounted drill-based water-extraction systems referred to as PVEx (Planetary Volatiles Extractor) and MISWE (Mobile In-Situ Water Extractor) are described in Zacny et al [32] [33] and Vendiola et al [34], shown in Figure 11 and Figure 12 respectively. Both apply heat to water-bearing regolith and flow extracted water vapor to a low-temperature condenser (CT) for deposition.…”

Section: Rover Mounted Drillsmentioning

confidence: 99%