IPSE: Italian Package for Scientific Experiments

Details IPSE: Italian Package for Scientific Experiments IPSE: Italian Package for Scientific Experiments

Jul 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000came.work....4a&link_type=abstract

Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 4

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Mars Surface, Roving Vehicles, Samplers, Spacecraft Instruments, Instrument Packages, Automatic Control, Soil Sampling, Mars Exploration, Mars Sample Return Missions

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IPSE is a scientific autonomous micro-laboratory for Mars soil and environment analysis. It was proposed for the previous 2003 Mars Sample Return mission and more generally speaking for the Mars Exploration Program. It provides the capability to serve, handle and manage scientific miniaturized instruments accommodated inside its envelope. These instruments will carry out scientific measurements on soil samples, atmosphere, radiation environment and dust flux. The first version, now under development, will have basic capabilities and no mobility but the philosophy of the design is to have a modular system that will evolve with each launch opportunity. Its general configuration for the 2003 MSR mission is based on a structure with an external envelope to fit the available room on the Lander deck and featuring 10 kg mass, inclusive of four scientific instruments described hereafter. A small robotic arm with 3 or 4 degrees of freedom is normally stowed inside the IPSE envelope and provides, during operations, the capability of delivering soil samples to the instruments taken from the deep soil drill (DEEDRI). IPSE is designed to operate in Martian environmental conditions but it could be adapted for other purposes. This means that it will be able to operate at low temperatures and low pressures in a sandy and windy atmosphere.

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