Scheduling Information

• Andrea Donnellan
• Sridhar Anandakrishnan
• Carol Raymond
• Neil Cobbett
• Michael Ashley
• Remy Fourre

Thermal Management

• Henry Awaya
• Nick Wynne

Communications

• Tom Rebold
• Ngoc Hoang
• Kevin Cullen

  Issues:

  • Data rates
  • Power
  • Latency
  • Cost
  • Latitude
  • Local communications
  • 2-way
  • Interference
  • Existing
  • State of Health

Power Generation

• Remy Fourre
• Carol Raymond
• Bill Nesbit
• John Storey
• Paul Tregoning

  Issues:

  • Power management
  • Wind
  • Photovoltaic
  • Fuel cells
  • Fossil fuels
  • Batteries
  • Other sources

Data Management

• Sridhar Anandakrishnan
• Tom Rebold
• Greg Dace
• Remy Fourre

  Issues:

  • Data logger
  • Data storage
  • Interfaces
  • Storage media
  • Time tagging
  • Compression
  • Data integrity
  • State of health
  • Command and control
  • Onsite vs. telemetered

Mechanical Packaging

• Phil Anderson
• Mark Smith

  Issues:

  • Thermal
  • Robustness
  • Icing
  • Static
  • Payload/size
  • Materials
  • Integration

Logistics/Deployment

• Don Voight

  Issues:

  • Load
  • Altitude
  • Ruggedness
  • Door size
  • Ease of assembly
  • Adaptability
  • Human factor

Optical Systems

• Michael Ashley

  Issues:

  • Science/sensor feedbacks to the autonomous system
  • Seismic noise
  • Optical noise
  • EMI/RFI
  • Icing
  • Static electricity

Testing

• Andrea Donnellan

  Issues:

  • Cold facilities
  • Regular test facilities (Aberdeen, Crell, Nicl, JPL, GSFC wind tunnel, Ames,Langley, ASA)
  • Mountain tops (with astronomical observatories, i.e. Mt. Washington (NH), Whte Mountain (CA), Mauna Kea (HI); Halley, McMurdo, South Pole Black Island (Antarctica))
  • Calibration-validation

   

Experimenter's Handbook Outline

• Batteries and charge controllers
• Power sources
• Heating control
• Packaging
• Communications
• Data storage
• Integration
• War stories
• Reference meteorological data
• Sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.)
• Maintenance
• Optical systems
• Icing/snow build-up
• Deployment
• Testing facilities
• Bibliography and resources

Database

1. Experiments
2. Equipment and results
3. Future needs
4. Design/manufacturing capabilities
5. Products

Issues to cover for all components

• Maintenance
• Duty cycle
• War stories/recommendations
• Support equipment
• Manufacturers
• Specifications (temperature tange, altitude range)
• Test facilities
• Linux documentation project (How-to database)
• Bibliography and list of resources
• Summary and common sense (do's and don'ts)
• Wish list for future
• Emerging technologies
• Cost (link to manufacturers, prices actually paid)
• Knowledge gaps
• Service life in the field
• Antarctic-specific quirks

Last modified on 3/13/00 by Maggi Glasscoe (Maggi.Glasscoe@jpl.nasa.gov)