Honeybee Robotics - HD Mars 2020 Sample Acquisition and Caching Concept

Honeybee Robotics has unmatched experience developing technologies for sample acquisition, caching and processing. This includes key technologies and architectures that could enable Mars Sample Return (MSR) as the core function of a Mars 2020 mission. The company has been designing and building surface drills for MSR since the 1990’s, and to date has built and tested 10 different core drilling systems. The Mars Mission 2020 is intended to investigate the environment on Mars in the context of its habitability and potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geologic materials. Mars Sample Return is a long-sought objective to better understand the history and habitability of Mars by bringing cached rock samples back to Earth for analysis. Honeybee’s expertise in planetary drilling, core sample acquisition, and sample caching provides many viable approaches to a sample return mission. The company’s technologies feature lightweight drills that can take multiple core samp