Atmospheric probes have been successfully flown to planets and moons in the solar system to conduct in situ measurements. They include the Pioneer Venus multi-probes, the Galileo Jupiter probe, and Huygens probe. Probe mission concepts to five destinations, including Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, have all utilized similar-shaped aeroshells and concept of operations, namely a 45° sphere cone shape with high density heatshield material and parachute system for extracting the descent vehicle from the aeroshell. The current paradigm is to design a probe to meet specific mission requirements and to optimize mass, volume, and cost for a single mission. However, this methodology means repeated efforts to design an aeroshell for different destinations with minor differences. A new paradigm has been explored that has a “common probe” design that could be flown at these different destinations and could be assembled in advance with multiple copies, properly stored, and made available for future NASA missions. Not having to re-design and rebuild an aeroshell could potentially result in cost and schedule savings and reduce the risk of losing technologies and skills difficult to sustain over decades.


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    Titel :

    A Common Probe Design for Multiple Planetary Destinations


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Meeting of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) ; 2018 ; Laurel, MD, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2018-11-06


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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