Mars 2020 Live Technology Demonstrations

Honeybee Robotics is developing a variety of technologies for drilling, sample acquisition and sample caching for NASA s Mars2020 mission. The proposed Mars2020 architecture uses one bit one core caching approach, whereby each rock core sample is acquired with a new bit and subsequently cached with that bit. To help with rock triage i. e. the order and priority of assessing and acquiring rock samples the drill has a number of unique tools: 1. The Rock Abrasion Brushing Bit (RABBit) for abrading an