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Swamp Works

January 01, 1970

The Swamp Works is a lean-development, rapid innovation environment at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.[1][2][3][4] It was founded in 2012,[5] when four laboratories in the Surface Systems Office were merged into an enlarged facility with a modified philosophy for rapid technology development.[6] Those laboratories are the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab,[7] the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab,[8] the Applied Chemistry Lab,[9] and the Life Support and Habitation Systems (LSHS) team.[10] The first two of these are located inside the main Swamp Works building, while the other two use the facility although their primary work is located elsewhere. The team developed the Swamp Works operating philosophy from Kelly Johnson's Skunk Works, including the "14 Rules of Management", from the NASA development shops of Wernher von Braun, and from the innovation culture of Silicon Valley.[11][12][13] The team prototypes space technologies rapidly to learn early in the process how to write better requirements, enabling them to build better products, rapidly, and at reduced cost. It was named the Swamp Works for similarity with the Skunk Works and the Phantom Works, but branded by the widespread marshes (swamps) on the Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island property of the Kennedy Space Center. The Swamp Works was co-founded by NASA engineers and scientists Jack Fox, Rob Mueller, and Philip Metzger. The logo, a robotic alligator, was designed by Rosie Mueller, a professional designer and the spouse of Rob Mueller.[citation needed]

KSC Swamp Works
Established2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Research typeUnclassified
DirectorRobert Mueller
LocationKennedy Space Center, Florida
Operating agency
NASA
WebsiteSwamp Works website
At the Swamp Works, a sculpture made of lunar soil simulant representing construction on the Moon by robots working together with humans.

Swamp Works Facility edit

 
View inside the NASA KSC Swamp Works showing the regolith test bin
 
Rob Mueller talking with Apollo 11 astronaut and moonwalker Buzz Aldrin about the space mining robot RASSOR developed by the KSC Swamp Works.

The Swamp Works' main facility is the high bay in KSC's Engineering Development Lab, which was formerly the Astronaut Training Building during the NASA Apollo program. The building is where Apollo astronauts practiced working with the Lunar Module for lunar landings and extravehicular activities. During the Space Shuttle era it was used as a destination for bus tours from the KSC Visitor Complex. After the visitor complex decided it no longer needed the facility, it was handed back to NASA and was renovated for Swamp Works. The high bay was furnished with a lunar soil testing facility,[14][15] the "Big Bin", which is thought to be the world's largest indoor, climate controlled lunar regolith chamber[16] and contains 120 tons of BP-1 simulated lunar soil.[17] The simulated soil is a finely crushed basalt from Black Point, Arizona, that has mechanical properties matching lunar soil.[18] The facility has four 3D printers and an adjacent machine shop with lathes, drill presses, a CNC Router, and other equipment to enable rapid iterative prototyping. The facility also includes an Innovation Space where employees are encouraged to work informally in the upstairs loft.[citation needed]

Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab edit

 
RASSOR is a fore-and-aft bucket drum mining robot for low gravity built by the KSC Swamp Works.

The Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO) Lab combines theoretical and experimental granular mechanics with applied robotics to operate with the soil on other planetary bodies, known as regolith. GMRO develops technologies to mine, convey, extract resources from, manufacture with, and construct infrastructure, like buildings and rocket landing pads, from regolith. GMRO also develops self-cleaning connectors for the dusty lunar and martian environments, performs research into rocket blast effects for landing or launching on the surfaces of the Moon, Mars or asteroids, and has developed a miniature space mining robot called the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR).[19] RASSOR has fore-and-after counter-rotating bucket drums to dig in soil in almost zero gravity. The GMRO Lab is involved in organizing and judging the NASA Robotic Mining competition,[20] held annually at the Kennedy Space Center each May, and the Swarmathon University Challenge for swarming robots.[21] GMRO also built the KSC Hazard Field at the north end of the Space Shuttle's runway, which is a field of simulated craters and boulders in sandy regolith.[22] The hazard field was used by the Morpheus Lander project for flight tests in 2013-2014. The GMRO Lab has a large industrial robot arm used for printing buildings from lunar or martian (simulated) regolith mixed with recycled plastic. [23][24]

Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab edit

 
Carlos Calle demonstrating the Electrodynamic Dust Shield to the NASA Chief Technologist, David Miller

The Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab (ESPL) develops technologies related to the unique physics that occur at material surfaces, leveraging it for applications in space. It developed an Electrodynamic Dust Shield that uses electrostatic forces that shift locations to sweep lunar or Martian dust from spacecraft surfaces.[25] It created sensors that can be mounted into the wheels of planetary rovers to measure the spectrometry of tribocharging as an identification tool for the minerals it is driving over.[26] It is also working on graphene as an energy storage medium.[27] The ESPL and GMRO Lab worked together to develop a Mars Entry Heat Shield made out of regolith bonded by high temperature polymer.[28] It could be made on the Martian moon Phobos then attached to a spacecraft from Earth to land on Mars, resulting in a cost savings for Mars missions.[29]

Applied Chemistry Lab edit

 
The RESOLVE lunar prospecting payload built by the Applied Chemistry Lab on a Canadian rover during a field test in Hawaii.

The Applied Chemistry Lab develops technologies to support launch activities on the Kennedy Space Center and for use on the surfaces of the Moon, Mars or asteroids.[30] Technologies for terrestrial ground operations include toxic vapor detection and environmental remediation. Technologies for use in space include chemical extraction of resources from lunar or Martian soil, recycling packing materials from space launch to create methane and other needed gases, and development of payload instruments for prospecting lunar ice.[31]

Life Support and Habitation Systems Team edit

The Life Support and Habitation Systems team develops technologies in four main areas.[32] The first is recovery and recycling of water onboard spacecraft. The second is controlling the trace amounts of chemicals such as ammonia that could build up in a spacecraft's enclosed atmosphere. The third is characterizing the microbial content of solid waste during space missions. The fourth is producing food through plant growth. The lab developed and operates the payload VEGGIE on board the International Space Station, which uses LED lighting at specific frequencies to cause plant growth with minimum energy.[33][34]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ . Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office. Archived from the original on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  2. ^ "NASA KSC's Swamp Works Collaborative Research Teams Develop New Technologies for Space Exploration". Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  3. ^ "Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works – Developing New Tools for Deep Space Exploration". Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  4. ^ "Surface Systems Engineering". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  5. ^ "SWAMP WORKS at NASA/Kennedy Space Center". Facebook. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  6. ^ "Swamp Works Thrives on New Engineering Approach". Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  7. ^ "Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations (GMRO)". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  8. ^ "Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  9. ^ "Applied Chemistry Lab". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  10. ^ "Advanced Life Support". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  11. ^ "Swamp Works Thrives on New Engineering Approach". Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  12. ^ "Meet Phil Metzger". Philip Metzger: Space Mining, Space Settlement, and Space Science!. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  13. ^ "Tap Into The 7 Secrets Of Silicon Valley's Innovation Culture". Fast Company. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  14. ^ "X-Prize Moon Rover Testing". YouTube for Discovery Channel Canada. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  15. ^ "NASA brings moon indoors to Kennedy Space Center". Florida today. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  16. ^ "Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works – Developing New Tools for Deep Space Exploration". Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  17. ^ "Preliminary Geological Findings on the BP-1 Simulant" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  18. ^ Rahmatian, Laila; Metzger, Philip (2010). "Soil Test Apparatus for Lunar Surfaces". Earth and Space 2010. pp. 239–253. doi:10.1061/41096(366)25. ISBN 9780784410967. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  19. ^ "Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) Excavator". NASA Technology Transfer Program. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  20. ^ "NASA Robotic Mining Competition". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  21. ^ "NASA Swarmathon University Challenge". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  22. ^ "Look Out for Those Rocks!". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  23. ^ "NASA's Exploration Plans Include Living Off the Land". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  24. ^ "Autodesk and NASA Team Up for Space Habitats with Earthly Spin-Offs". Engineering.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  25. ^ "Astropreneurs meet NASA's Swamp Works". Astropreneurs: The ultimate resource for space entrepreneurs. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  26. ^ Johansen, M.R.; Phillips, J.R.; Kelley, J.D.; Mackey, P.J.; Holbert, E.; Clements, J.S.; Calle, C.I. (2014). "A Feasibility Study Of The Wheel Electrostatic Spectrometer". Proc. ESA Annual Meeting on Electrostatics 2014. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  27. ^ Mackey, Paul; Calle, Carlos; Johansen, Michael; Hogue, Michael; Holbert, Eirick; Kaner, Richard; El-Kady, Maher; Wang, Lisa; Hwange, Jee Youn (2015-04-14). "Graphene-based Energy Storage Devices for Space Applications" (PDF). Lunar Surface Applications Workshop. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  28. ^ "Researchers Look to Alien Soils for Heat Shield". Kennedy Space Center. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  29. ^ "Lecture slides: Phobos-Deimos In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)". Brown University Planetary Geosciences Group. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  30. ^ "Applied Chemistry Lab". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  31. ^ "Getting Ready To Live Off The Land…On Mars". Science Friday. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  32. ^ "Advanced Life Support". Kennedy Space Center Partnerships. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  33. ^ "Astronauts Snack on Space-Grown Lettuce for First Time". Space.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  34. ^ "Veggie Plant Growth System Activated on International Space Station". NASA. Retrieved 2018-08-22.

External links edit

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January 01, 1970
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The Swamp Works is a lean development rapid innovation environment at NASA s Kennedy Space Center 1 2 3 4 It was founded in 2012 5 when four laboratories in the Surface Systems Office were merged into an enlarged facility with a modified philosophy for rapid technology development 6 Those laboratories are the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab 7 the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab 8 the Applied Chemistry Lab 9 and the Life Support and Habitation Systems LSHS team 10 The first two of these are located inside the main Swamp Works building while the other two use the facility although their primary work is located elsewhere The team developed the Swamp Works operating philosophy from Kelly Johnson s Skunk Works including the 14 Rules of Management from the NASA development shops of Wernher von Braun and from the innovation culture of Silicon Valley 11 12 13 The team prototypes space technologies rapidly to learn early in the process how to write better requirements enabling them to build better products rapidly and at reduced cost It was named the Swamp Works for similarity with the Skunk Works and the Phantom Works but branded by the widespread marshes swamps on the Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island property of the Kennedy Space Center The Swamp Works was co founded by NASA engineers and scientists Jack Fox Rob Mueller and Philip Metzger The logo a robotic alligator was designed by Rosie Mueller a professional designer and the spouse of Rob Mueller citation needed KSC Swamp WorksEstablished2012 12 years ago 2012 Research typeUnclassifiedDirectorRobert MuellerLocationKennedy Space Center FloridaOperating agencyNASAWebsiteSwamp Works website At the Swamp Works a sculpture made of lunar soil simulant representing construction on the Moon by robots working together with humans Contents 1 Swamp Works Facility 2 Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab 3 Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab 4 Applied Chemistry Lab 5 Life Support and Habitation Systems Team 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksSwamp Works Facility edit nbsp View inside the NASA KSC Swamp Works showing the regolith test bin nbsp Rob Mueller talking with Apollo 11 astronaut and moonwalker Buzz Aldrin about the space mining robot RASSOR developed by the KSC Swamp Works The Swamp Works main facility is the high bay in KSC s Engineering Development Lab which was formerly the Astronaut Training Building during the NASA Apollo program The building is where Apollo astronauts practiced working with the Lunar Module for lunar landings and extravehicular activities During the Space Shuttle era it was used as a destination for bus tours from the KSC Visitor Complex After the visitor complex decided it no longer needed the facility it was handed back to NASA and was renovated for Swamp Works The high bay was furnished with a lunar soil testing facility 14 15 the Big Bin which is thought to be the world s largest indoor climate controlled lunar regolith chamber 16 and contains 120 tons of BP 1 simulated lunar soil 17 The simulated soil is a finely crushed basalt from Black Point Arizona that has mechanical properties matching lunar soil 18 The facility has four 3D printers and an adjacent machine shop with lathes drill presses a CNC Router and other equipment to enable rapid iterative prototyping The facility also includes an Innovation Space where employees are encouraged to work informally in the upstairs loft citation needed Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab edit nbsp RASSOR is a fore and aft bucket drum mining robot for low gravity built by the KSC Swamp Works The Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations GMRO Lab combines theoretical and experimental granular mechanics with applied robotics to operate with the soil on other planetary bodies known as regolith GMRO develops technologies to mine convey extract resources from manufacture with and construct infrastructure like buildings and rocket landing pads from regolith GMRO also develops self cleaning connectors for the dusty lunar and martian environments performs research into rocket blast effects for landing or launching on the surfaces of the Moon Mars or asteroids and has developed a miniature space mining robot called the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot RASSOR 19 RASSOR has fore and after counter rotating bucket drums to dig in soil in almost zero gravity The GMRO Lab is involved in organizing and judging the NASA Robotic Mining competition 20 held annually at the Kennedy Space Center each May and the Swarmathon University Challenge for swarming robots 21 GMRO also built the KSC Hazard Field at the north end of the Space Shuttle s runway which is a field of simulated craters and boulders in sandy regolith 22 The hazard field was used by the Morpheus Lander project for flight tests in 2013 2014 The GMRO Lab has a large industrial robot arm used for printing buildings from lunar or martian simulated regolith mixed with recycled plastic 23 24 Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab edit nbsp Carlos Calle demonstrating the Electrodynamic Dust Shield to the NASA Chief Technologist David Miller The Electrostatics and Surface Physics Lab ESPL develops technologies related to the unique physics that occur at material surfaces leveraging it for applications in space It developed an Electrodynamic Dust Shield that uses electrostatic forces that shift locations to sweep lunar or Martian dust from spacecraft surfaces 25 It created sensors that can be mounted into the wheels of planetary rovers to measure the spectrometry of tribocharging as an identification tool for the minerals it is driving over 26 It is also working on graphene as an energy storage medium 27 The ESPL and GMRO Lab worked together to develop a Mars Entry Heat Shield made out of regolith bonded by high temperature polymer 28 It could be made on the Martian moon Phobos then attached to a spacecraft from Earth to land on Mars resulting in a cost savings for Mars missions 29 Applied Chemistry Lab edit nbsp The RESOLVE lunar prospecting payload built by the Applied Chemistry Lab on a Canadian rover during a field test in Hawaii The Applied Chemistry Lab develops technologies to support launch activities on the Kennedy Space Center and for use on the surfaces of the Moon Mars or asteroids 30 Technologies for terrestrial ground operations include toxic vapor detection and environmental remediation Technologies for use in space include chemical extraction of resources from lunar or Martian soil recycling packing materials from space launch to create methane and other needed gases and development of payload instruments for prospecting lunar ice 31 Life Support and Habitation Systems Team editThe Life Support and Habitation Systems team develops technologies in four main areas 32 The first is recovery and recycling of water onboard spacecraft The second is controlling the trace amounts of chemicals such as ammonia that could build up in a spacecraft s enclosed atmosphere The third is characterizing the microbial content of solid waste during space missions The fourth is producing food through plant growth The lab developed and operates the payload VEGGIE on board the International Space Station which uses LED lighting at specific frequencies to cause plant growth with minimum energy 33 34 See also edit nbsp Spaceflight portal nbsp Physics portal nbsp United States portal Boeing Phantom Works advanced projects division Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program JPL Lockheed Skunk Works advanced projects division NASA EagleworksReferences edit Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works Developing New Tools for Deep Space Exploration Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office Archived from the original on 2018 07 10 Retrieved 2018 09 01 NASA KSC s Swamp Works Collaborative Research Teams Develop New Technologies for Space Exploration Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Retrieved 2018 08 22 Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works Developing New Tools for Deep Space Exploration Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office Retrieved 2018 08 22 Surface Systems Engineering Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 SWAMP WORKS at NASA Kennedy Space Center Facebook Retrieved 2018 08 22 Swamp Works Thrives on New Engineering Approach Kennedy Space Center Retrieved 2018 08 22 Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations GMRO Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Applied Chemistry Lab Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Advanced Life Support Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Swamp Works Thrives on New Engineering Approach Kennedy Space Center Retrieved 2018 08 22 Meet Phil Metzger Philip Metzger Space Mining Space Settlement and Space Science Retrieved 2018 08 22 Tap Into The 7 Secrets Of Silicon Valley s Innovation Culture Fast Company Retrieved 2018 08 22 X Prize Moon Rover Testing YouTube for Discovery Channel Canada Retrieved 2018 08 22 NASA brings moon indoors to Kennedy Space Center Florida today Retrieved 2018 08 22 Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works Developing New Tools for Deep Space Exploration Kennedy Space Center Technology Transfer Office Retrieved 2018 08 22 Preliminary Geological Findings on the BP 1 Simulant PDF NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 Rahmatian Laila Metzger Philip 2010 Soil Test Apparatus for Lunar Surfaces Earth and Space 2010 pp 239 253 doi 10 1061 41096 366 25 ISBN 9780784410967 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot RASSOR Excavator NASA Technology Transfer Program Retrieved 2018 08 22 NASA Robotic Mining Competition NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 NASA Swarmathon University Challenge NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 Look Out for Those Rocks NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 NASA s Exploration Plans Include Living Off the Land NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 Autodesk and NASA Team Up for Space Habitats with Earthly Spin Offs Engineering com Retrieved 2018 08 22 Astropreneurs meet NASA s Swamp Works Astropreneurs The ultimate resource for space entrepreneurs Retrieved 2018 08 22 Johansen M R Phillips J R Kelley J D Mackey P J Holbert E Clements J S Calle C I 2014 A Feasibility Study Of The Wheel Electrostatic Spectrometer Proc ESA Annual Meeting on Electrostatics 2014 Retrieved 2018 08 22 Mackey Paul Calle Carlos Johansen Michael Hogue Michael Holbert Eirick Kaner Richard El Kady Maher Wang Lisa Hwange Jee Youn 2015 04 14 Graphene based Energy Storage Devices for Space Applications PDF Lunar Surface Applications Workshop Retrieved 2018 08 22 Researchers Look to Alien Soils for Heat Shield Kennedy Space Center Retrieved 2018 08 22 Lecture slides Phobos Deimos In Situ Resource Utilization ISRU Brown University Planetary Geosciences Group Retrieved 2018 08 22 Applied Chemistry Lab Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Getting Ready To Live Off The Land On Mars Science Friday Retrieved 2018 08 22 Advanced Life Support Kennedy Space Center Partnerships Retrieved 2018 08 22 Astronauts Snack on Space Grown Lettuce for First Time Space com Retrieved 2018 08 22 Veggie Plant Growth System Activated on International Space Station NASA Retrieved 2018 08 22 External links editSwamp Works website 28 31 21 N 80 38 33 W 28 5225 N 80 6426 W 28 5225 80 6426 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Swamp Works amp oldid 1216348758, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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