NASA policy requires continuous telecommunications with missions during the execution of their critical events, which implies constraints on where missions to other planets may land or inject into orbit. JPL is working to establish a telecommunications network at Mars to provide contact with inbound missions to Mars and assets that have landed on the Martian surface, thus reducing the constraints on where critical events may be performed. Coordination of network assets is required to cover an inbound mission's critical event, such as EDL. This paper describes the development of a tool to evaluate EDL coverage capability of Mars network assets over a specified launch date/arrival date space.
Coordination of Mars Orbiting Assets to Support Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Activities
AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics ; 2004 ; Maui, HI, United States
2004-01-01
Preprint
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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