Mars Intro

M.A.R.
S: Martian Advanced
Renewable Systems
Francisco Valdes, Ph.D. , Paula Gomez. Aerospace Transportation and Advanced Systems Lab, GTRI
Outline
About VIP
Grading of VIP Teams
The VIP Notebook
VIP Team Expectations
Individual Development Plan (IDP)
About M.A.R.S Team : Objectives and
Challenges
In Situ Resources Utilization (ISRU)
First Reading Assignment
About VIP
VIP is:
Vertically Integrated Program operates in a research
and development context.
Undergraduate students earn academic credit for
their participation in design/discovery efforts.
Graduate students support research and

development issues in their areas of expertise.
The VIP teams are:

Multidisciplinary - drawing students from all
disciplines on campus;
Vertically-integrated - maintaining a mix of
sophomores through PhD students each semester;
Long-term - each undergraduate student may
participate in a project for up to three years and each
graduate student may participate for the duration of
their graduate career.
Grading of VIP Teams

1. Documentation and records (33%)
VIP Notebook (not optional);

VIP Wiki/blog documentation;
Code (via GT GitHub) if team is
developing software.
2. Personal accomplishments and

contributions to your teams goals (33%)
Reports required by your adviser(s);
Engagement in project;
Pursuit of knowledge necessary for
project;
3. Teamwork and interaction (33%)

Peer Evaluations;
On-time attendance in meetings;
Actively contributes to overall team
goals;
Coordinates activities with other
team members;
Assists other team members;
Team presentation(s).
Contributions to the technical progress of

the team;
For more experienced members of the
team, contributions to the management
of the project may be expected.
The VIP Notebook

Notebook Maintenance The notebook does not have removable pages.
Your name, your project's name, your contact info and your team
members' contact info are recorded on the cover or inside of the
cover.
Each page is numbered, dated and signed.
To-Do List Maintenance Maintain check-boxes for items to be done.
Check-off and dated items when done.
Meeting Notes
Detailed meeting notes that include check-boxes for items for

which you are responsible and deadlines for your sub team and the
overall team.
Usability
Will your VIP notebook be of use to people who join the team later
and need to refer to it? This includes legibility, intelligible technical
and meeting notes, and overall organization.
Overall
An overall rating of your notebook. (Detailed design notes, design

decisions, copies of or pointers to code that you wrote, records of
important websites, etc.)
Wiki content
Wiki content refers to documentation produced online, either

through the VIP wiki site, T-square, or other team-approved site.
The VIP Notebook
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VIP Teams Expectations

Students are expected to be
exploratory, creative, and
imaginative.
Students are expected to be
independent minded and develop
designs based on their self-driven
research and interests in the
Martian environment, and design
systems.
Students are expected to contribute
and share knowledge and skills from
their own disciplines in collaboration
with other students, to teach each
other as much as learn.
Students are expected to work
together creating work as a
synthesis of all disciplines
About M.A.R.S VIP Team

General Team Focus:
NASA projects a possible human presence on
Mars as early as 2030s.
We must develop systems capable of
supporting life on the red planet.
Earth-Made Martian Systems must be
lightweight and small to make the journey and
robust enough to survive without help from
Earth.
The VIP M.A.R.S. Team will research and
develop advanced systems to enable Martian
energy harvesting and In-Situ Resources
Utilization (ISRU).
We will collaborate with scientists and
engineers at GTRI and NASAs Kennedy Space
Center.
Main Focus will be the design of advanced
habitats for extreme conditions, and the
acquisition of reliable and renewable energy.
General Objectives:
Assess minimum path (lean) architectures on the basis of both affordability and
sustainability for initial missions by the mid-2030s.
Identify the most efficient materials, architectures, system autonomy and energy
management solutions needed to optimally project/generate a micro-environment
around Martian assets.
Establish fundamentals of key technology areas: materials/structures,

packing/deployment, ISRU, and adaptive hardware
Identify meaningful, affordable activities that are necessary to carry out in the near
term in order to advance key capabilities and technologies
Continue to build community consensus on the viability of human missions to Mars.
Specific Objectives:
Adapt the most recent advances in multifunctional structures and additive
manufacturing to enable architectural design to support habitability in extreme
environments (EE like Mars).
Propose Multi-Source energy harvesting systems based on ISRU to facilitate human
operations on Mars (E.g. PZ + PV + TB)
Innovate in ways to redirect solar energy into shadowed exploration sites, enabling
the exploration of permanently shadowed craters and caves.
Create new sustainable system architectures based on Martian resources (ISRU)
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Current Challenges:
The single greatest determining feature of surface missions is the need to operate in a
complex and only partially understood environment.
Extreme planetary environments represent the next frontier for in-situ robotic/human
space exploration.
Harsh environments lead to rapid degradation of components/systems and significant
aging during longer missions.
Space missions are highly constrained by the amount of cargo capabilities
Operations that involve long periods of time without direct solar input or
permanently shadowed environments.
For mission to Mars, spare parts and maintenance of infrastructure and equipment is
a big concern.
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ISRU, Our main Focus

ISRU involves any hardware or operation that harnesses and utilizes in situ
resources to create products and services for robotic and human exploration
Our Focus!
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ISRU ISRU Strongly Influences Element Designs and Architecture Choices
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ISRU Challenges
Space Resource Challenges:
ISRU Technical Challenges:
What resources exist at the site of

exploration that can be used?
What are the uncertainties associated
with these resources?
How to address planetary protection
requirements?
Is it technically feasible to collect,

extract, and process the resource?
How to achieve long duration,
autonomous operation and failure
recovery?
How to achieve high reliability and
minimal maintenance requirements?
ISRU Operation Challenges:
ISRU Integration Challenges:
How to operate in extreme

environments, including temperature,
pressure, dust, and radiation?
How to operate in low gravity or microgravity environments?
How are other systems designed to

incorporate ISRU products?
How to optimize at the architectural
level rather than the system level?
How to manage the physical interfaces
and interactions between ISRU and
other systems?
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ISRU Challenges
Some previous habitat concepts for

Planetary exploration
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M.A.R.S Students: Reading Assignment

Paper or academic publication you are studying
Intro to Domain Problem
Results
Methodology
Conclusions
A3 Quad chart: Assignment will be sent by email today
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M.A.R.S Students, so far
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Individual Development Plan (IDP)
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M.A.R.

Graduate students support research and

The VIP teams are:

Grading of VIP Teams

VIP Notebook (not optional);

2. Personal accomplishments and

3. Teamwork and interaction (33%)

Contributions to the technical progress of

The VIP Notebook

To-Do List Maintenance Maintain check-boxes for items to be done.

Check-off and dated items when done.

Detailed meeting notes that include check-boxes for items for

An overall rating of your notebook. (Detailed design notes, design

Wiki content refers to documentation produced online, either

The VIP Notebook

VIP Teams Expectations

About M.A.R.S VIP Team

About M.A.R.S VIP Team

Establish fundamentals of key technology areas: materials/structures,

Continue to build community consensus on the viability of human missions to Mars.

About M.A.R.S VIP Team

About M.A.R.S VIP Team

ISRU, Our main Focus

ISRU, Our main Focus

ISRU, Our main Focus

Space Resource Challenges:

ISRU Technical Challenges:

What resources exist at the site of

Is it technically feasible to collect,

ISRU Operation Challenges:

ISRU Integration Challenges:

How to operate in extreme

How are other systems designed to

Some previous habitat concepts for

M.A.R.S Students: Reading Assignment

A3 Quad chart: Assignment will be sent by email today

M.A.R.S Students, so far

Individual Development Plan (IDP)

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