The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) project, the next United States mission to the surface of Mars, uses aerodynamic decelerators in during its entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase. These two identical missions (MER-A and MER-B), which deliver NASA s largest mobile science suite to date to the surface of Mars, employ hypersonic entry with an ablative energy dissipating aeroshell, a supersonic/subsonic disk-gap-band parachute and an airbag landing system within EDL. This paper gives an overview of the MER EDL system and speaks to some of the challenges faced by the various aerodynamic decelerators.


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    Titel :

    The Mars Exploration Rovers Entry Descent and Landing and the Use of Aerodynamic Decelerators


    Beteiligte:
    Steltzner, Adam (Autor:in) / Desai, Prasun (Autor:in) / Lee, Wayne (Autor:in) / Bruno, Robin (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA ADS Conference ; 2003 ; Monterey, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2003-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch







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