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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik
EP 4: Planets and Small bodies
EP 4.4: Vortrag
Dienstag, 22. März 2022, 15:00–15:15, EP-H1
TRIPLE-IceCraft - A Retrievable Melting Probe to Transport Scientific Payloads into Subglacial Lakes or Oceans — •Dirk Heinen1, Simon Zierke1, Jan Audehm1, Mia Giang Do1, Yuting Ye1, Christopher Wiebusch1, Marco Feldmann2, Gero Francke2, and Clemens Espe2 — 1RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Otto-Blumenthal-Str., 52074 Aachen — 2GSI - Gesellschaft für Systementwicklung und Instrumentierung mbH, Liebigstraße 26, 52070 Aachen
Within TRIPLE, initiated by the German Space Agency at DLR, Technologies for Rapid Ice Penetration and subglacial Lake Exploration are being researched. TRIPLE aims to explore the subglacial ocean of the Jovian moon Europa. Prior to this flight mission a technology demonstration is planned in Antarctica. For accessing the subglacial water reservoir, a drill or melting probe needs to penetrate the ice first.
The TRIPLE-IceCraft melting probe is currently in development. It is a modular bus system for transporting standardized payloads through ice. The design will be suitable for transporting a scientific payload through several hundred meters of ice, penetrating into a subglacial ocean or lake, and returning later to the surface. The TRIPLE-IceCraft will be demonstrated in an analog scenario at the Ekström Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2023. In this talk we present the design and first results on subsystem tests of the TRIPLE-IceCraft.