Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions
The global climate crisis forces the search for new ecological sources of energy and mining methods. Space mining can solve those problems, but, first, wide geological surveying space missions using drilling methods are necessary. Additionally, drilling methods will be important in geological, life...
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| author | Adam Jan Zwierzyński Wojciech Teper Rafał Wiśniowski Andrzej Gonet Tomasz Buratowski Tadeusz Uhl Karol Seweryn |
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| description | The global climate crisis forces the search for new ecological sources of energy and mining methods. Space mining can solve those problems, but, first, wide geological surveying space missions using drilling methods are necessary. Additionally, drilling methods will be important in geological, life searching, geoengineering, and many other studies of extraterrestrial objects. Space is becoming a new area of possible drilling applications. Designing future space drilling missions requires adapting drilling technologies, not only to the conditions of the space environment, but also to the economic and technological realities of the space industry. The possibility of constructing low mass coring devices with energy consumption below 100 W was investigated in this paper. Minimization of energy consumption and mass of a coring is essential for the device to be used in space missions, when lander instruments supplied by low power electric battery are expected to work reliably and the launch cost (depending of mass) at an economically acceptable level. Some similar devices investigated for the future space missions are known from papers listed in the references. To answer whether or not it is possible to build such devices, the authors performed initial drillability tests. The obtained results are presented in this paper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ae6981cd916457281b5d65b9995507e2023-11-22T07:30:33ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732021-08-011416500510.3390/en14165005Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) MissionsAdam Jan Zwierzyński0Wojciech Teper1Rafał Wiśniowski2Andrzej Gonet3Tomasz Buratowski4Tadeusz Uhl5Karol Seweryn6Department of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Drilling and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, PolandSpace Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN), Bartycka 18A, 00-716 Warsaw, PolandThe global climate crisis forces the search for new ecological sources of energy and mining methods. Space mining can solve those problems, but, first, wide geological surveying space missions using drilling methods are necessary. Additionally, drilling methods will be important in geological, life searching, geoengineering, and many other studies of extraterrestrial objects. Space is becoming a new area of possible drilling applications. Designing future space drilling missions requires adapting drilling technologies, not only to the conditions of the space environment, but also to the economic and technological realities of the space industry. The possibility of constructing low mass coring devices with energy consumption below 100 W was investigated in this paper. Minimization of energy consumption and mass of a coring is essential for the device to be used in space missions, when lander instruments supplied by low power electric battery are expected to work reliably and the launch cost (depending of mass) at an economically acceptable level. Some similar devices investigated for the future space missions are known from papers listed in the references. To answer whether or not it is possible to build such devices, the authors performed initial drillability tests. The obtained results are presented in this paper.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5005space miningspace drillingdrillingspaceraw materialgeological surveying |
| spellingShingle | Adam Jan Zwierzyński Wojciech Teper Rafał Wiśniowski Andrzej Gonet Tomasz Buratowski Tadeusz Uhl Karol Seweryn Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions Energies space mining space drilling drilling space raw material geological surveying |
| title | Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions |
| title_full | Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions |
| title_fullStr | Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions |
| title_short | Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions |
| title_sort | feasibility study of low mass and low energy consumption drilling devices for future space mining surveying missions |
| topic | space mining space drilling drilling space raw material geological surveying |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5005 |
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