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Sample Sealing Approaches for Mars Sample Return CachingObjective ot this project was to investigate sealing methods for encapsulating samples in 1 cm diameter thin-walled sample tubes applicable to future proposed Mars Sample Return Techniques implemented include a spring energized Teflon sleeve plug, a crimped tube seal, a heat-activated shape memory alloy plug, a shape memory alloy activated cap, a solder-based plug, and a solder-based cap
Document ID
20130010658
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
hdl:2014/42757
Authors
Younse, Paulo (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
deAlwis, Thimal (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Backes, Paul (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Trebi-Ollennu, Ashitey (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
March 5, 2012
Subject Category
Mechanical Engineering
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 3, 2012
End Date: March 10, 2012
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission
caching subsystems
Sample Handling, Encapsulation and Containerization (SHEC)

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