ARTEMIS Lift Test

11/2/2015

By Peter Kimball

ARTEMIS is lifted into the moon pool in a full test of the ARTEMIS mechanical launching system. (photo: Peter Kimball)

We were out at the bot house yesterday, and stopped just short of putting ARTEMIS in the water. We completed a successful test of the lifting system used to put ARTEMIS in the water. The weight of ARTEMIS (1300 kg in air) and limited ceiling height in the bot house make lifting and rotation for launch and recovery a bit intricate. Here's a cross-section rendering Bill made showing how it works.

Cross-section of the ARTEMIS bot house showing ARTEMIS being lowered into the culvert. (image: Bill Stone)

1 Comment

Justin

1/11/2016 07:30:44 am

Getting caught up, winter here you know. Very nice, very cool to see ARTEMIS poised.

About the Blog

This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Authors

Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.