Martian Moons Exploration

Marotta Controls Developing Two Distinct Valves for Honeybee Robotics’ Pneumatic Sampler

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Aerospace, Technology, Manufacturing, Other Science, Satellite, Research, Other Defense, Defense, Engineering, Science, Hardware, Spaceflight, In spaceflight, Martian Moons Exploration, Honeybee Robotics, Phobos, MMX, Moons of Mars, JAXA, Marotta, Outer space, Marotta Controls, Honeybee Robotics

Marotta Controls , a rapidly growing aerospace and defense supplier based in New Jersey, today announced that it will be supplying critical system valves to Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation .

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  • Marotta Controls , a rapidly growing aerospace and defense supplier based in New Jersey, today announced that it will be supplying critical system valves to Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation .
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    Marotta Controls to supply custom solenoid valves and fill & drain valves to Honeybee Robotics for upcoming JAXA MMX Martian Moons eXploration mission.
  • Honeybees Pneumatic Sampler is designed to collect regolith samples from the surface of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons.
  • Since 1983, Honeybee Robotics has completed more than 350 advanced projects for NASA, the US Department of Defense, academia, and industry.

Mitsubishi Electric Begins Developing Martian Moons Exploration Probe

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Friday, February 21, 2020
Research, Hardware, Technology, Other Transport, Satellite, Science, Engineering, Air, Transport, Other Technology, Aerospace, Other Science, Manufacturing, Uncrewed spacecraft, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Phobos, JAXA, Martian Moons Exploration, Deimos, Moons of Mars, Lander, H-II Transfer Vehicle, MMX, Mars

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has been designated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the contractor of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) space probe.

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  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has been designated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the contractor of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) space probe.
  • Mitsubishi Electric, which has already initiated development activities for the project, will be responsible for the MMXs system design, manufacturing and operation, leveraging technologies that it first developed for the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) and the Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).
  • The MMXs mission is to determine the origins of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, as well as discover how water and organic substances became part of the primordial solar system.
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