Implementing bioburden reduction and control on the deliquescent hydrogel of the HABIT/ExoMars 2020 instrument

The authors of the paper would like to thank the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, DLR, Germany for their support to analyse the bioburden assay of the HABIT BOTTLE salt mixtures. The authors would also like to acknowledge Roberto Mantas-Nakhai for his contribution during the bioburden assay validati...

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Published in:Acta Astronautica
Main Authors: Mathanlal, Thasshwin, Nazarious, Miracle Israel, Ramachandran, Abhilash Vakkada, Zorzano, Maria-Paz, Martin-Torres, Javier, Rettberg, Petra
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Geology and Geophysics
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Planetary protection
Bioburden control
Bioburden assay
Dry heat microbial reduction
PERCHLORATE REDUCTION
LIQUID WATER
QE Geology
Aerospace Engineering
Other
QE
Luleå
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2164/14257
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.04.030
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576520302344
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Summary:The authors of the paper would like to thank the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, DLR, Germany for their support to analyse the bioburden assay of the HABIT BOTTLE salt mixtures. The authors would also like to acknowledge Roberto Mantas-Nakhai for his contribution during the bioburden assay validation. HABIT is an instrument of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU), led by J. MartínTorres (PI) and M-P. Zorzano (co-PI). The HABIT FM and EQM were fabricated by Omnisys, Sweden, under advice of LTU as part of the HABIT project development and funded by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). M-P. Z's contribution has been partially supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” - Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). We acknowledge the Luleå University of Technology, the Wallenberg Foundation and the Kempe Foundation for support of the Mars research activities. We thank the ExoMars project team, European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, Space Research Institute (IKI) and Omnisys Instruments AB for their hard work on the ExoMars 2022 mission. We acknowledge the Luleå University of Technology, the Wallenberg Foundation and the Kempe Foundation for support of the Mars research activities. The SpaceQ chamber has been developed together with Kurt J. Lesker Company and was funded by the Kempe Foundation. Peer reviewed

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