{"id":2206,"date":"2018-11-13T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/class\/?page_id=2206"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:31:46","slug":"landing-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/landing-team\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASS Planetary Landing Team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* Background<\/a>
\n* The Science of Plume Effects<\/a>
\n* Geological Considerations<\/a>
\n* Modeling Methods to Predict Plume Effects<\/a>
\n* ISRU for Mitigating Plume Effects<\/a>
\n* Protecting the Apollo Sites<\/a>
\n* Robotics to Build Extraterrestrial Spaceports<\/a>
\n* For Students & Educators<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Members<\/h2>\n

Philip Metzger, UCF – Planetary Landing Team Lead, Analysis and Sensors
\nDan Britt, UCF – CLASS Lead and Planetary Environments
\nWesley Chambers, MSFC – Asteroid Thruster Plume Effects
\nMario De Pra, UCF – Planetary Surface Observations and Photometry
\nAdrienne Dove, UCF – Plasma Environment and Dust
\nJason Dunn, Made In Space – Mitigation Technologies
\nTarek Elgohary, UCF – Physics-based Modeling
\nDouglas Fontes, UCF – Physics-based Modeling, Analysis, and Experiments
\nDavid Goldstein, U. of Texas – Physics-based Modeling
\nManish Mehta, NASA\/MSFC – Plume Effects Research, Modeling & Instruments
\nClive Neal, Notre Dame – Lunar Geology
\nNoemi Pinilla-Alonso, UCF – Planetary Surface Observations and Photometry
\nDhaka Sapkota, UCF – Landing Pad Technology Development
\nMichael Snyder, Made In Space – Mitigation Technologies
\nPaul van Susante, Michigan Tech U. – Mitigation Technologies and Robotics
\nEstela Valenzuela, UCF – Planetary Surface Observations and Photometry
\nFlaviane C. F. Venditti – Spacecraft Dynamics<\/p>\n

Lunar Lander and Flight Operations Team Members<\/em>
\nAndrew Horchler, Astrobotic Technology
\nSean Mahoney, Masten Space Systems
\nMohamed Ragab, iSpace
\nSeveral additional lunar and planetary spacecraft companies<\/p>\n

KSC Swamp Works Team Members<\/em>
\nRob Mueller, NASA\/KSC – Chief Technologist of Swamp Works
\nJim Mantovani, NASA\/KSC – Plume Analysis and Sensors
\nBrad Buckles, KSC\/LASSO – In-Situ Automated Additive Construction for Planetary Infrastructure
\nNathan Gelino, NASA\/KSC – In-Situ Automated Additive Construction for Planetary Infrastructure
\nPaul Hintze, NASA\/KSC – Regolith Sintering Technologies and Surface Stabilization
\nMichael Johansen, NASA\/KSC – Plasma and Dust Research and Modeling
\nJim Mantovani, NASA\/KSC – Plume Effects Research and Modeling
\nA.J. Nick, KSC\/LASSO – Surface Robotics & Landing Pad Construction
\nJason Schuler, NASA\/KSC – Surface Robotics & Landing Pad Construction
\nDrew Smith, NASA\/KSC Excavation Robotics and Extreme Environment Cryobotics
\nBruce Vu, NASA\/KSC – Physics-Based Modeling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Overview<\/h2>\n

When rockets land on planets, the rocket exhaust will produce dramatically different effects depending on the gravity and size of the spacecraft, the mechanical strength and porosity of the soil, and the density of the atmosphere. In lunar landings, a spacecraft the size of the Apollo Lunar Module will blow away more than a ton of soil, dust, and rocks at high velocity. For human-class landers on Mars, the supersonic jet will dig a deep, narrow crater that redirects a jet of gas carrying rocks and sand back up at the landing spacecraft.<\/p>\n

We need to understand the physics of these effects so we can predict and control them. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module landed on the Moon just 160 m away from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, and the spray of sand and dust from the Lunar Module thoroughly scoured and pitted the Surveyor’s surface. This kind of sandblasting can ruin optics and thermal control surfaces. The impact of rocks can destroy hardware. The chemicals in the rocket exhaust can disturb scientific measurements in the landing zone.<\/p>\n

Strategies to mitigate these effects include building landing pads on the Moon or Mars. To do so, we need to develop the robotics with technologies that use the planets’ local resources as building materials. We also need to develop the artificial intelligence so these robots can function autonomously, escaping limitations of the speed-of-light communications delay back to Earth.<\/p>\n

The CLASS Planetary Landing Team includes world-leading experts in these topic areas. We have already made significant progress developing the science and technology to enable safe, effective landings on other planets, and we are ready to support the lunar and Martian landings of the future.<\/p>\n

Next: \u00a0How do we know this is important? (Background)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Menu * Background * The Science of Plume Effects * Geological Considerations * Modeling Methods to Predict Plume Effects * ISRU for Mitigating Plume Effects * Protecting the Apollo Sites * Robotics to Build Extraterrestrial Spaceports * For Students & Educators Team Members Philip Metzger, UCF – Planetary Landing Team Lead, Analysis and Sensors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}