RedWater: Extraction of Water from Mars’ Ice Deposits
Honeybee Robotics has designed, built, and tested a TRL4/5 system known as RedWater, intended to drill into the surface of Mars and melt/extract water from locations identified by the Shallow Subsurface Radar, SHARAD. RedWater combines proven terrestrial technologies to extract water from the subsur...
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ftmichigantuniv:oai:digitalcommons.mtu.edu:michigantech-p-35088 2023-05-15T13:31:56+02:00 RedWater: Extraction of Water from Mars’ Ice Deposits Mellerowicz, Boleslaw Zacny, Kris Palmowski, Joey Bradley, Benjamin Stolov, Leo Yen, Bernice van Susante, Paul Johnson, George 2021-11-03T07:00:00Z https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/15784 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4038 unknown Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/15784 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4038 Michigan Tech Publications Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Mechanical Engineering text 2021 ftmichigantuniv https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4038 2022-03-31T17:39:08Z Honeybee Robotics has designed, built, and tested a TRL4/5 system known as RedWater, intended to drill into the surface of Mars and melt/extract water from locations identified by the Shallow Subsurface Radar, SHARAD. RedWater combines proven terrestrial technologies to extract water from the subsurface Martian ice. Rodriguez Wells, or RodWells, are a type of water well employed in Antarctica to maintain large pools of liquid water within an ice sheet and pumping water to the surface while heating and recirculating a portion to facilitate continuous well growth. RedWater also repurposes coiled tube drilling technology, which uses a thin-walled metal or composite tube to drive a bottom hole assembly into a borehole; the coiled tube itself is wound onto a drum and deployed by an injector system which transmits the required drilling forces through the tube as it is driven down. The combination of these two technologies with Honeybee’s existing rotary percussive drilling and pneumatic transport technologies make for an efficient means of producing large quantities of liquid water on Mars. Honeybee is currently working on evolving this technology to TRL6 and will be conducting end-to-end TVAC testing in 2022. Text Antarc* Antarctica Ice Sheet Michigan Technological University: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech Rodriguez ENVELOPE(-56.720,-56.720,-63.529,-63.529) ASCEND 2021 |
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Honeybee Robotics has designed, built, and tested a TRL4/5 system known as RedWater, intended to drill into the surface of Mars and melt/extract water from locations identified by the Shallow Subsurface Radar, SHARAD. RedWater combines proven terrestrial technologies to extract water from the subsurface Martian ice. Rodriguez Wells, or RodWells, are a type of water well employed in Antarctica to maintain large pools of liquid water within an ice sheet and pumping water to the surface while heating and recirculating a portion to facilitate continuous well growth. RedWater also repurposes coiled tube drilling technology, which uses a thin-walled metal or composite tube to drive a bottom hole assembly into a borehole; the coiled tube itself is wound onto a drum and deployed by an injector system which transmits the required drilling forces through the tube as it is driven down. The combination of these two technologies with Honeybee’s existing rotary percussive drilling and pneumatic transport technologies make for an efficient means of producing large quantities of liquid water on Mars. Honeybee is currently working on evolving this technology to TRL6 and will be conducting end-to-end TVAC testing in 2022. |
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