IPEx Experiment

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During the Fall of 2022 I worked as a NASA intern in the Swamo Works facility at Kennedy Space Center. The project I worked on was for IPEx, an experiment to test Rassor rovers bucket drum configuration aboard a Blue Origin New Shepherd to emulate Lunar gravity conditions and analyze the interaction of Lunar regolith simulant and the excavation drums. I worked on a team to design the payload in CREO, and then I animated the top don assembly using CREO's animation plugin.

Designed in Creo for the RASSOR

The top-down assembly animation of the payload was made in Creo. Below is the internship report I submitted.

Details

  • NASA Kennedy Space Center

  • Fall 2022

ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx)