Honeybee Robotics

The Honeybee Robotics Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) on the Opportunity Mars Rover.

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation is a small spacecraft technology and robotics company[1] headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, with offices in Pasadena, California and Longmont, Colorado.[2] It was established in 1983 by Stephen Gorevan[3] and Chris Chapman.[4]

Products

Honeybee has particular expertise in developing and operating small mechanical tools used on Mars missions. Some of the robotic devices it has developed and successfully demonstrated on Mars include:

In addition, they are developing tools to be used to live and work on the moon as part of NASA's Constellation program.[8]

Honeybee is currently developing systems for future missions to Mars,[9] Venus, the moon, two Jovian moons,[9] and asteroid[10] and comet sample return,[11] among others. They have worked with Bigelow Aerospace to develop a preliminary design for a solar array deployment mechanism that would be used on the solar arrays of their Genesis inflatable space habitat. Terrestrial projects include developing mechanisms, installations, and systems for a broad array of clients including Con Edison, the U.S. Navy, Coca-Cola, Nike, and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.[12]

References

  1. Erik Baard, "Alligators Below City? Try Robo-Inchworms", New York Times, BUSINESS: DIARY; November 10, 2002
  2. "Locations - Honeybee Robotics". honeybeerobotics.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  3. Kenneth Chang, "Martian Robots, Taking Orders From a Manhattan Walk-Up," New York Times, November 7, 2004
  4. Greg Clark, "Mars Sample Mission -- Here's the Drill," Space.com, posted August 11, 1999
  5. "Touch and Go Days - Astrobiology Magazine". astrobio.net. 7 February 2004. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  6. "http://www.honeybeerobotics.com/isad.html". honeybeerobotics.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016. External link in |title= (help)
  7. http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/SAM/
  8. "How to build lunar homes from moon dirt - USATODAY.com". usatoday.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  9. 1 2 K. Zacny, G. Paulsen, K. Davis, E. Mumm, and S. Gorevan, Honeybee Robotics Planetary Sample Acquisition, Transfer and Processing Technologies, presented at Mars Sample Return 2008, Lunar and Planetary Science Institute.
  10. Derek Sears, Carl Allen, Dan Britt, Don Brownlee, Melissa Franzen, Leon Gefert, Stephen Gorovan, Carle Pieters, Jeffrey Preble, Dan Scheeres and Ed Scott, "The Hera mission: multiple near-earth asteroid sample return," Advances in Space Research, Volume 34, Issue 11, 2004, pp. 2270-2275 doi:10.1016/j.asr.2003.05.059
  11. S. Gorevan, I. Yachbes, P. Bartlett, K.Zacny, G. L. Paulsen, T. Kennedy, B. Basso, and J. Wilson, "Comet and Asteroid Sample Acquisition, Containerization, and Transfer for Sample Return", presented at Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors (2006).
  12. "http://www.honeybeerobotics.com/mission.html". honeybeerobotics.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016. External link in |title= (help)

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