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