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SensorLine: A Distributed Sensor System for Planetary Exploration
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Woman-Owned: NoMinority-Owned: NoHUBZone-Owned: No
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Fiscal Year: 2004Title: SensorLine: A Distributed Sensor System for Planetary ExplorationAgency: NASAContract: NNL04AA18CAward Amount: $599,465.00
Abstract:
The SensorLine is a small, simple, low-cost system for deploying arrays of tethered microsensors for planetary, asteroid, and subsurface exploration. The SensorLine system integrates the microsensors into a thin, lightweight tether that provides both power and communication. In planetary exploration applications, the SensorLine?s novel deployment method permits these sensors to be distributed over long distances on a planetary surface, enabling planetary landers to obtain in situ thermal, chemical, seismic, and other measurements over a much wider area at a significantly lower cost, complexity, and technical risk than robotic rovers. In exploration of the lunar poles, the SensorLine could enable a probe placed on a sunlit hill to obtain in situ measurements of soil composition in a permanently shaded crater. In subsurface exploration applications such as the proposed Cryoscout experiment, the SensorLine system can provide power, communications, and distributed sensing capabilities for burrowing probes.Small Business Information at Submission:Tethers Unlimited
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Award Information
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Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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Award ID: 66899 |
Program Year/Program: 2004 / SBIR |
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Agency Tracking Number: 022776 |
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