This paper presents the results of a NASA initiated Agency-wide assessment to better characterize the risks and potential mitigation approaches associated with landing human class Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) systems on Mars. Due to the criticality and long-lead nature of advancing EDL techniques, it is necessary to determine an appropriate strategy to improve the capability to land large payloads. A key focus of this study was to understand the key EDL risks and with a focus on determining what "must" be tested at Mars. This process identified the various risks and potential risk mitigation strategies along with the key near term technology development efforts required and in what environment those technology demonstrations were best suited. The study identified key risks along with advantages to each entry technology. In addition, it was identified that provided the EDL concept of operations (con ops) minimized large scale transition events, there was no technology requirement for a Mars pre-cursor demonstration. Instead, NASA should take a direct path to a human-scale lander.


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    Titel :

    Human Mars EDL Pathfinder Study: Assessment of Technology Development Gaps and Mitigations


    Beteiligte:
    R. Lillard (Autor:in) / J. Olejniczak (Autor:in) / T. Polsgrove (Autor:in) / A. D. Cianciolo (Autor:in) / M. Munk (Autor:in) / C. Whetsel (Autor:in) / B. Drake (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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