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SMART TOOLS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXPLORING THE FRONTIER




THOR: THERMAL HIGH-VOLTAGE OCEAN-PENETRATOR RESEARCH PLATFORM

THOR is a prototype for a new class of exploration vehicle which combines
elements of an ice-penetrator (cryobot) and an ocean-profiler (sonde) for future
Ocean Worlds exploration.

The full THOR vehicle is a Closed-Cycle Hot Water Drill (CCHWD) cryobot able to
penetrate up to 500 m of ice and able to transition to an actively spooled sonde
upon breakthrough into the water, a vehicle architecture we term an IOP
(Ice-Ocean Penetrator). The vehicle actively spools a tether — providing a
vertical control capability enabling controlled breakthrough into the water
body, active profiling of the lake chemistry, and re-spooling and recovery to
the surface. While Ocean World applications will require nuclear power, the
tether also enables THOR to be powered from the surface via high-voltage
electrical power to our unique hot-water heating design able to emulate the
power density of a Kilopower reactor. The full THOR vehicle will carry a
sampling subsystem as well as spatial, environmental, and life-detection sensors
to characterize the ice and water it transits through. This platform and sensor
suite will then be used to develop and test strategies and behaviors for
autonomous exploration and sampling as the vehicle descends through an ice
column and into and through a subglacial water body below.

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Stone Aerospace is a Texas-based company dedicated to the exploration and
commercialization of the frontiers we know of and the discovery of the ones yet
to come. We develop the tools needed to explore the frontier, to survive and
work in it, to characterize it, and to exploit it. Our people are both seasoned
expeditionary scientists and explorers—who personally use the equipment we
design in demanding environments—and best-of-class engineers and coders. We are
novel, lean, fast moving, and cutting-edge. We strive to change the way things
are done, to cut red tape, and get reliable hardware into the field rapidly. Our
business structure and extensive partnerships allow us to swiftly assemble
extraordinary multi-disciplinary teams to tackle complex high-tech projects. We
specialize in autonomous systems, mobile robotics, fiber-tethered and Wi-Fi
controlled vehicles, re-entry vehicles, novel spacecraft architectures,
propulsion, structures and dynamics, manned systems, closed-cycle life support,
spacesuit PLSS and spacecraft ECLSS systems, 3D mapping (both laser radar and
high resolution sonar), guidance and navigation systems, auto-docking systems
(ladar, optical, gps-aided, imu-aided, dvl-aided, sonar, usbl), embedded
devices, high density power systems, head-up displays, and smart devices.



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