火星探测计划
演习
钻探
管(容器)
连续油管
地质学
钻孔
火星人
喷油器
石油工程
火星表面
海洋工程
天体生物学
遥感
机械工程
工程类
岩土工程
物理
作者
B. Mellerowicz,K. Zacny,Joseph Palmowski,Benjamin Bradley,Leo Stolov,Bernice Yen,D. Sabahi,Lilly Ware,A. Ridilla,Huey Nguyen,David Faris,Paul J. van Susante,George Johnson,N. E. Putzig,Michael H. Hecht
出处
期刊:ASCEND 2021
日期:2021-11-03
被引量:1
摘要
Honeybee Robotics has designed, built, and tested a TRL4/5 system known as RedWater, intended to drill into the surface of Mars and melt/extract water from locations identified by the Shallow Subsurface Radar, SHARAD. RedWater combines proven terrestrial technologies to extract water from the subsurface Martian ice. Rodriguez Wells, or RodWells, are a type of water well employed in Antarctica to maintain large pools of liquid water within an ice sheet and pumping water to the surface while heating and recirculating a portion to facilitate continuous well growth. RedWater also repurposes coiled tube drilling technology, which uses a thin-walled metal or composite tube to drive a bottom hole assembly into a borehole; the coiled tube itself is wound onto a drum and deployed by an injector system which transmits the required drilling forces through the tube as it is driven down. The combination of these two technologies with Honeybee’s existing rotary percussive drilling and pneumatic transport technologies make for an efficient means of producing large quantities of liquid water on Mars. Honeybee is currently working on evolving this technology to TRL6 and will be conducting end-to-end TVAC testing in 2022.
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