Publications

Journals

R. Agrawal, S. Seager, I. Iakubivskyi, W.P. Buchanan, A. Glidden, M.D. Seager, W. Bains, J. Huang, & J.J. Petkowski. "Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (33) e2425520122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425520122 (2025). 

R. Agrawal, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, C. E. Carr, W. P. Buchanan, K. Bywaters, M. de Jong, D. H. Grinspoon, I.  Iakubivskyi, I. R. King, S. J. Saikia, K. Zacny. “Venus cloud sample return concept for astrobiology.” Advances in Space Research (2024) doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2024.03.065.

J. J. Petkowski, S. Seager, D. H. Grinspoon, W. Bains, S. Ranjan, P. B. Rimmer, W. Buchanan, R. Agrawal, R. Mogul, and C. E. Carr. “Astrobiological Potential of Venus Atmosphere Chemical Anomalies and Other Unexplained Cloud Properties.” Astrobiology (2024) doi: 10.1089/ast.2022.0060

P. Girija, R. Agrawal, Y. Lu, A. Arora, M. de Jong, M. Kent, S. J. Saikia, and J. M. Longuski. “A single wheel test rig for Ocean Worlds rovers.” J. of Terramechanics (2023) doi: 10.1016/j.jterra.2023.07.001

R. Agrawal, W. Buchanan, A. Arora, A. P. Girija, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, S. J. Saikia, P. Klupar, C. E. Carr, D. H. Grinspoon, M. de Jong, J. M. Longuski, and the Venus Life Finder Mission Team. “Mission architecture to determine habitability of Venus cloud layers.” Aerospace (2022) doi: 10.3390/aerospace9070359 (Cover story of the Aerospace Volume 9, Issue 7)

S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, C. E. Carr, D. Grinspoon, B. Ehlmann, S. J. Saikia, R. Agrawal, W. Buchanan, M. Weber, R. French, P. Klupar, and S.P. Worden. “Venus life finder missions motivation and summary.” Aerospace (2022) doi: 10.3390/aerospace9070385

W. Buchanan, M. de Jong, R. Agrawal, J. J. Petkowski, A. Arora, S. J. Saikia, S. Seager, J. M. Longuski, and the Venus Life Finder Mission Team. “Aerial platform design options for a life-finding mission at Venus.” Aerospace (2022) doi: 10.3390/aerospace9070363  

S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, C. E. Carr, S. J. Saikia, R. Agrawal, W. Buchanan, D. Grinspoon, M. Weber, P. Klupar, S.P. Worden, I. Iakubivskyi, M. Pajusalu, L. Kaasik and the Venus Life Finder Mission Team. “Venus life finder habitability missions: motivation, science objectives, and instrumentation.” Aerospace (2022) doi: 10.3390/aerospace9110733

R. Agrawal, R. Potter, S. J. Saikia, J. M. Longuski, R. M. Davis, and B. Collom. “Conceptual design and assessment of a Mars orbital logistics node for sustainable human exploration.” Acta Astronautica (2021) doi: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.08.026

K. Moore, S. Courville, S. Ferguson, A. Schoenfeld, K. Llera, R. Agrawal, P. Buhler, D. Brack, K. Connour, E. Czaplinski, M. DeLuca, A. Deutch, N. Hammond, D. Kuettel, A. Marusiak, S. Nerozzi, J. Stuart, J. Tarnas, A. Thelen, J. Castillo, W. Smythe, D. Landau, K. Mitchell, and C. Budney. “Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object.” Planetary and Space Science (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.105137

Conferences

R. Agrawal, W. Buchanan, I. Iakubiyskyi, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski. “Sample preparation concept for in situ complex molecules analysis of Venusian cloud droplets.” International Planetary Probe Workshop, Williamsburg, VI, USA. June 2024. (Poster)

R. Agrawal, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, I. Iakubiyskyi, W. Buchanan. “Sample preparation concept for in situ complex molecules analysis of Venusian cloud droplets.” Astrobiology Science Conference, Providence, RI, USA. May 2024. (Poster)

R. Agrawal, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, S. J. Saikia, W. Buchanan, M. de Jong, C. E. Carr, I. R. King, K. Bywaters, K. Zacny, D. H. Grinspoon. “Venus atmospheric and cloud particle sample return for astrobiology investigations.” Venus Science Conference, Virtual, PRL, India. September 2022. (Invited)

R. Agrawal, W. Buchanan, A. Arora, A. P. Girija, S. Seager, J. J. Petkowski, S. J. Saikia, P. Klupar, C. E. Carr, D. H. Grinspoon, M. de Jong, J. M. Longuski, and the Venus Life Finder Mission Team. “Mission architecture for exploring the cloud layers of Venus to find signs of life or life itself.” 18th International Planetary Probe Workshop, Virtual. August 2021.

R. Agrawal, R. Potter, S. J. Saikia, and J. Longuski. “Enabling sustainable human exploration of Mars via orbital logistics node.” AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Portland, ME, USA. August 2019.

R. Agrawal, B. Aiken, M. de Jong, A. Pradeepkumar, J. Longuski, and S. J. Saikia. “Surface mobility system with large deployable and conformal tires for Ocean Worlds exploration.” 15th International Planetary Probe Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA. June 2018. (Best Student Poster, 3rd Position)

R. Agrawal and R. N. Banavar, “Circular orbit spacecraft control at the L4 point using Lyapunov functions." European Control Conference 15, Aalborg, Denmark. July 2016. arxiv.org/abs/1511.08121

A. Rajagopal, P. Bende, R. Agrawal et al. “Design, modeling and control of a 6 degrees of freedom robotic arm with specific application in planetary exploration missions." International Astronautical Conference 65, Toronto, Canada. Sept-Oct 2014.

A. Yadav, R. Agrawal, R. Roopak, and B. Senwar. “Design of an automated system at the ground segment for data acquisition, processing and archiving for ’Pratham’ IIT Bombay." International Astronautical Conference 65, 2014, Toronto, Canada. Sept-Oct 2014.