High-Temp Electronics For Venus Exploration, recent advances |
High-Temp Electronics For Venus Exploration, recent advances |
Mar 13 2013, 03:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 291 |
(MOD NOTE: Started a new topic for this discussion to continue. Please remember the 'no sci-fi engineering' provision of rule 1.9. Have fun!)
Also, since I'm thinking about surface operations on Venus, the state-of-the-art in high temperature electronics has advanced quite far in the past decade. Its now possible to buy off the shelf chips from vendors designed to operate at the 250-300 C range. Meanwhile basic functionality has been tested at and beyond the temperatures needed for long-term surface operations on Venus: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/SiC/ http://www.gizmag.com/extreme-silicon-carb...ctronics/16410/ http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/SiC/publicatio...Contact2010.pdf Another decade or so and a long-term Venus lander could be possible with (practically) off the shelf electronics! |
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Apr 8 2013, 06:34 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 21-January 13 Member No.: 6845 |
All the ideas are very strange, but NASA Glenn Research Center is already working on it.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/ipm2012/pdf/1133.pdf Development of a High Temperature Venus Seismometer and Extreme Environment Testing Chamber A lander mission without camera is not a mission. One point is: Is it possible to have a CCD or MOSFET camera at 4500-500°C? |
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Apr 8 2013, 01:32 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
A lander mission without camera is not a mission. Yes it is. Not all spacecraft can, should or must carry cameras. Would it be nice to take a more modern imaging suite to the surface of Venus? Obviously. There is still huge quantities of science to be done without one, however. |
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