View Full Version : IceMole, autonomous ice research probe, cryobot, Aachen, Germany
Airicist
16th December 2013, 17:27
Developer - FH Aachen - Aachen University of Applied Sciences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FH_Aachen)
Principal investigator - Bernd Dachwald (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?12167)
IceMole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceMole) on Wikipedia
Airicist
16th December 2013, 18:17
https://youtu.be/4hSpeHXMNCc
IceMole Local time report
Uploaded on Oct 6, 2010
Airicist
16th December 2013, 18:20
https://youtu.be/MOUpMtsLn6Y
IceMole Launch/Breakout
Uploaded on Mar 6, 2011
The IceMole probe (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences) on field testing on the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland.
Airicist
15th August 2015, 07:46
https://youtu.be/yIQ5q9-6XEg
IceMole Project - Dr Bernd Dachwald, Aachen University
Published on Aug 11, 2015
Prof Dr Bernd Dachwald is professor for astronautical engineering at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is project director for FH Aachen’s IceMole project and lead of the Enceladus Explorer consortium. He is also adjunct lecturer for space systems engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Before his current position, he was mission operations director for SAR-Lupe at the DLR German Space Operations Center at Oberpfaffenhofen and postdoc mission analyst at DLR Cologne. In 2003, he obtained his PdD in aerospace engineering from the University of the Armed Forces Munich for low-thrust trajectory optimization. He has studied aerospace engineering at the University of the Armed Forces Munich and postgraduate business administration at the University of Hagen. His current fields of scientific research are space mission analysis, design and optimization, intelligent methods for spacecraft trajectory optimization and attitude control, innovative space technologies (especially solar sails and subsurface sampling). Solar System exploration (especially icy moons and small bodies), astrobiology, and planetary defence.