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PlanetVac Moving Forward
Meet the Team and Learn What They are Doing
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2013/07/03 01:23 CDT | 4 comments
Meet the PlanetVac team and learn their general plan and what they are doing now. PlanetVac is a newly started Planetary Society and Honeybee Robotics project to test a pneumatic system to sample planetary surfaces.
PlanetVac Project Underway
Planetary Society Sponsored Surface Sampling Project
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2013/07/01 02:56 CDT | 1 comments
The Planetary Society's PlanetVac project with Honeybee Robotics is now fully underway. Here we provide a just released statement by Honeybee, and an introduction to this lab test of a new planetary surface sampling system.
PlanetVac: Sucking Up Planetary Regolith
A New Planetary Society Project
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2012/10/30 02:27 CDT | 3 comments
Learn about the Planetary Society’s newest project: PlanetVac, with Honeybee Robotics, aims to prototype and test in a huge vacuum chamber a new way to sample planetary surfaces that could be used for sample return or for in situ instruments.
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