New challenges for application of robotics and automation in space research

Author

Bejczy, Antal K.

Author_Institution

Caltech, JPL, Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 May 2012

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

247

Abstract

Summary form only given. The presentation will cover the challenges in two major NASA space missions: (1) Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), currently on way to planet Mars with expected landing there in early August this (2012) year after more than 8 months travel with 13 thousands km. hourly speed. The MSL will search for past or current life possibilities on Mars since existence of water -“the bed of life” - has been verified several times during previous NASA visits on Mars. (2) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) under construction for several years and planned to start operation in 2016 in a heliocentric orbit at 1.5 million km distance from Earth. The JWST will carry out several searches in the cosmos, among them it will try to determine when did visible light first appear in the cosmos.

Keywords

Earth orbit; Mars; aerospace robotics; astronomical telescopes; space research; Earth; JWST; James Webb Space Telescope; MSL; Mars Science Laboratory; Mars planet; NASA space missions; cosmos; current life possibilities; heliocentric orbit; past life possibilities; robotics; space research automation; visible light;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2012 7th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1013-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1012-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SACI.2012.6250010

Filename

6250010