Early in operational testing for the InSight mission to Mars, it was discovered that the final maneuver to target the entry-interface point (EIP) was unexpectedly sensitive, in both magnitude and direction, to planned atmosphere model updates that would be based on real-time measurements of the Martian atmosphere by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Upon investigation, the team realized that the Phoenix mission also discovered this sensitivity during its operational testing. A further investigation identified that maneuver sensitivity to real-time atmosphere updates was a result of the fact that both the EFPA and ground target were being held fixed, constraining the maneuver in a way that forced the entry time to change in order to compensate for changes to the nominal trajectory from updating the atmosphere model. The final maneuver occurs 22 hours prior to entry, at which point it is very expensive to change entry time. The study also revealed that any unguided Mars entry, descent, and landing (EDL) mission would be impacted by this sensitivity if it used real-time atmosphere observations to model the nominal expected atmosphere used for maneuver targeting of the EIP. This paper discusses the results of that investigation and presents a number of mitigations as well as the consequences of ignoring the sensitivity.


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    Titel :

    Atmospheric impacts on EDL maneuver targeting for the InSight mission and unguided Mars landers


    Beteiligte:
    Kipp, Devin (Autor:in) / Chung, Min-Kun (Autor:in) / Sklyanskiy, Evgeniy (Autor:in) / Gustafson, Eric (Autor:in) / Wallace, Mark (Autor:in) / Bonfiglio, Eugene P. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-01-13


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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