Dutch Space and the Aurora program

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Dutch Space and the Aurora program

• P.L. van Leeuwen, Jutta Kraemer
• Informatiemiddag ESA Aurora-programma
• 18 April 2002 (SRON, Utrecht)

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Business direction
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Conditions Contributions

• Establish the strongest science backbone possible
• Concerted contribution to ESA program
• Establish national collaboration
• Synergy between science technology (SRON/NIVR)
• Establish adequate budget
• Enabling technology mainly developed by
  universities, technology institutes
• Industrial responsibility for scientific
  instrument(s)

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Specifically

• Eager to contribute to Aurora program
• Robotic human exploration missions in the solar
  system
• Emphasis on search for life elsewhere
• Various contacts with involved scientists exist
  and some support is already being provided
• Various instruments (and even small platforms)
  are readily conceivable and have been discussed,
  also in ESA context
• Todays meeting is expected to provide valuable
  inputs to further strategy

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Proposed participation

• 2 proposals issued to ESA's ITT
• Dexterous Grasping and Manipulation
• Bio (Hazard) Screening Device, being part of
  "Personal Care" approach

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Dexterous Grasping and Manipulation

• Continuation of in-house study on Compact
  Dexterous Gripper
• Focus on
• dynamic modelling
• development and implementation of controller
  model in simulator
• demonstration in simulation

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Towards Personal Carefor Exploration Missionsin
the Solar System

• Jutta Kraemer, Ron Huijser
• Informatiemiddag ESA Aurora-programma
• 18 April 2002 (SRON, Utrecht)

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Exploration Missions

• ESA Aurora
• Robotic human exploration missions in the solar
  system
• Emphasis on search for life elsewhere

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Towards Personal Care

• Three proposals
• Connected to eventual long duration human
  spaceflight
• Food study of plant growth
• Hygiene monitoring of the environment
• Radiation determine effects

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Food

• Proposal 1
• Development of a small facility for the study of
  plant (food) growth under changing weight
  conditions
• Basis
• Experiment package constructed from copies of
  subsystems from the Experiment Reference Model
  of the European Modular Cultivation System
  (EMCS) for ISS
• Use of full size Random Positioning Machine
  (RPM) to manipulate the packages weight,
  including the plant specimen
• Collaboration with DESC (Amsterdam) in particular

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• EMCS ERMF shelves with provisions for 2x4
  Experiment Containers
• Full size RPM that will accommodate a shelve with
  one EMCS EC provisions

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Hygiene

• Proposal 2
• Development of a portable instrument (biohazard
  screening device) to monitor the environment
  inside a spaceship for the presence/absence of
  possibly harmful bacteria
• Basis
• Robust and simplified version of the Fluorescent
  Miniature Microscope (Fluor-MiMi)
• Specific Fluorescent Marker Kits
• Collaboration with Bioclear (Groningen) in
  particular

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Radiation

• Proposal 3
• Development of an automated space bioreactor that
  is used to determine harmful effects of space
  radiation on cultivated human tissue during
  actual spaceflight
• (preferably outside the Van Allen belts)
• Basis
• Bioreactor derived from existing Modular Space
  Bioreactor (MSB) prototypes
• Possible combination with (existing) radiation
  monitor
• Starting on (or via) ISS, next on missions away
  from Earth
• Collaboration with TBD tissue growers (
  radiation experts)

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• Prototype Modular Space Bioreactors