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Project Khepri: Mining Asteroid Bennu For Water, Erika Frost, Gowtham Boyala, Adam Gremm, Ahmet Gungor, Amirhossein Taghipour, Massimo Biella, Jiawei "Jackson" Qiu, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Arjun Chhabra, Adam Gee, Saanjali Maharaj, Erin Richardson, Julia Empey, Haidar Ali Abdul-Nabi, Lindsay Richards, Ariyaan Talukder, Aaron Groh, Brie Miklaucic, Jd Carlson, Kristina Kim, Maverick Cue
Project Khepri: Mining Asteroid Bennu For Water, Erika Frost, Gowtham Boyala, Adam Gremm, Ahmet Gungor, Amirhossein Taghipour, Massimo Biella, Jiawei "Jackson" Qiu, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Arjun Chhabra, Adam Gee, Saanjali Maharaj, Erin Richardson, Julia Empey, Haidar Ali Abdul-Nabi, Lindsay Richards, Ariyaan Talukder, Aaron Groh, Brie Miklaucic, Jd Carlson, Kristina Kim, Maverick Cue
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Deep space asteroid mining presents the opportunity for the collection of critical resources required to establish a cis-lunar infrastructure. In specific, the Project Khepri team has focused on the collection of water from asteroid Bennu. This water has the potential to provide a source of clean-energy propellant as well as an essential consumable for humans or agriculture on crewed trips to the Moon or Mars. This would avoid the high costs of launching from Earth - making it a highly desirable element for the future of cis-lunar infrastructure. The OSIRIS-REx mission provided a complete survey of asteroid Bennu and is …
Application Of Tensile Testing Machine For Measurement Of Skin Friction Coefficient, Jeremy Silver-Mahr
Application Of Tensile Testing Machine For Measurement Of Skin Friction Coefficient, Jeremy Silver-Mahr
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Traditionally fluid drag associated with skin friction is conducted by the measurement of constrained fluid flow across a textured surface. This works well for easy-to-handle fluids such as water and oil, however it is less feasible for fluids such as liquid metals. A device that measures the drag force on a surface through a static fluid would allow for different fluid types and sample geometries to be tested. A fish scale pattern consisted of overlapping repeating circular planes 3mm in diameter angled to achieve 0.14mm of depth was embossed onto a PMMA sheet. A control sample of smooth PMMA was …