AUTONOMOUS MICROSYSTEMS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY: DEVELOPMENT OF, AND SPACEFLIGHT RESULTS FROM, THE O/OREOS NANOSATELLITE

• DOI: 10.31438/trf.hh2012.25
• Publication Date: 2019-03-28T13:11:17Z
• Authors: A.J. Ricco; P. Ehrenfreund; D. Squires; M. Piccini; C. Beasley; N. Bramall; G. Minelli; E. Agasid; K. Bryson; A. Cook; M. Diaz-Aguado; L. Bica; J. Chittenden; C. Friedericks; M. Henschke; J.W. Hines; C. Kitts; D. Landis; E. Luzzi; D. Ly; N. Mai; R. Mancinelli; A. Mattioda; M. McIntyre; M. Neumann; W. Nicholson; M. Parra; R. Quinn; R. Rasay; R. Ricks; O. Santos; A. Schooley; E. Stackpole; L. Timucin; B. Yost; A. Young
• Keywords: Payload (computing); Spaceflight; Survivability; Life support system; Orbit (dynamics); Microsystem

We designed, developed, constructed, tested, launched, and are now analyzing data telemetered from orbit by the O/OREOS (Organism/ Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) nanosatellite.Measuring ~10 x 10 34 cm weighing 5.5 kg, (Figure 1) launched in November 2010 into 650-km Earth as a secondary payload Kodiak, Alaska.O/OREOS comprises three conjoined 10-cm-cubes, each fully integrated microsystem: "bus" including communications, power, control functions; Space Environment Survivability of Living Organisms (SESLO) experiment, Viability Organics (SEVO) experiment.We will present results SEVO's real-time analysis photostability organics biomarkers over space exposure times one year, SESLO's on survival metabolic activity microorganisms at 3 timepoints spanning 6 months.