On February 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Rover “Perseverance” conducted the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) sequence to land safely on the surface of Mars at Jezero Crater. Due to the criticality of the EDL sequence, redundant telecommunications strategies were utilized to observe the event. The rover transmitted an X-band (8.4 GHz) signal encoded with Multiple Frequency Shift Keying tones direct-to-Earth and a UHF (401.5 MHz) signal with 8 kbps encoded telemetry to orbiters, which relayed the signal back to Earth at X-band. NASA's Deep Space Network complexes at Goldstone, California and Madrid, Spain received the direct-to-Earth X-band signal. Two of the largest steerable radio telescopes in the world, the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Effelsberg 100-meter Radio Telescope in Germany also received the UHF carrier signal on Earth. During the EDL event, full spectrum recordings of the UHF and X-band signals were captured at these observatories using open-loop receivers. Real-time and post-processing signal analysis to determine power level, received frequency, and Doppler shift allowed determination of the spacecraft's health and safety state during critical sequences, including event detection such as atmospheric entry, plasma blackouts, and parachute deployment. Simultaneous observations of the UHF and X-band radio links allow for redundancy in the event of a fault and greatly improve confidence in Doppler event detection.


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    Titel :

    Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing as Observed by Radio Science Techniques at UHF and X-band Frequencies


    Beteiligte:
    Buccino, Dustin (Autor:in) / Oudrhiri, Kamal (Autor:in) / Kahan, Daniel (Autor:in) / Lee, Clement (Autor:in) / Barbinis, Elias (Autor:in) / Maiid, Walid (Autor:in) / Lay, Norman (Autor:in) / Soriano, Melissa (Autor:in) / Mauger, Lisa (Autor:in) / Finley, Susan (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-03-05


    Format / Umfang :

    3561764 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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