UPCD

Ultrasonic Planetary Core Drill

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW    more  Organization address address: University Avenue city: GLASGOW postcode: G12 8QQ contact info Titolo: Ms Nome: Adriana Cognome: Scicluna
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	3˙069˙190 €
EC contributo	2˙360˙244 €
Programma	FP7-SPACE Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space
Code Call	FP7-SPACE-2013-1
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-12-12   -   2017-01-01

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW  Organization address address: University Avenue city: GLASGOW postcode: G12 8QQ contact info Titolo: Ms Nome: Adriana Cognome: Scicluna	UK (GLASGOW)	coordinator	964˙687.00
2	LIDAX INGENIERIA S.L.  Organization address address: AVENIDA CRISTOBAL COLON 16 - 1 IZ city: TORREJON DE ARDOZ postcode: 28850 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Jesus Cognome: Aivar	ES (TORREJON DE ARDOZ)	participant	545˙501.00
3	SPACE SYSTEMS FINLAND OY  Organization address address: KAPPELITIE 6 city: ESPOO postcode: 2200 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Matti Cognome: Anttila	FI (ESPOO)	participant	489˙928.00
4	MAGNA PARVA LTD  Organization address address: MERIDIAN SOUTH - MERIDIAN BUSINESS PARK 2 city: LEICESTER postcode: LE19 1WY contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Andy Cognome: Bowyer	UK (LEICESTER)	participant	360˙128.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Ultrasonic Planetary Core Drill project seeks to build a space-compatible tool that can extract samples of rock from up to 30 cm beneath the surface and then containerise them for caching or return to Earth. This tool will be developed by a consortium led by the University of Glasgow (UK) and supported by Space Systems Finland (Finland), LIDAX (Spain) and Magna Parva (UK). The University of Glasgow will provide expertise in the field of ultrasonic drilling, which is used to penetrate rock without generating large reaction forces and thus enables deployment of the UPCD from a small lander. Space Systems Finland will provide software that will enable autonomous operations of the device, which will be essential for sample preservation, LIDAX will produce a deployment system to permit highly repeatable operations, and Magna Parva will carry out the vital systems engineering functions. The focus of the UPCD project will be a field trial in an analogue site, namely the active permafrost of Devon Island, Canada. This volatile-bearing rock is exceptionally Mars-like and it is a key objective of the UPCD project to extract and containerise samples with the volatiles still intact. Ultrasonic drilling with its high downhole efficiency and supported autonomous sample health monitoring, offers drilling without elevating the sample temperature, thus reducing drive-off of the compounds that could tell us so much about the history of water on other planets. These experiments will only be possible, and the results only meaningfully analysed, if we are confident that the drill site is representative of volatile-bearing rocks and that the containerised samples contain the volatiles we seek. The engineering team at the trials will be accompanied by a scientist specialising in the history of water in the solar system, to ensure selection of appropriate drill sites and to evaluate the quality of the samples we extract. '