The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission touched down in Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018, becoming NASA’s eighth successful entry, descent, and landing (EDL) at Mars. InSight inherited the successful 2008 Phoenix (PHX) EDL system, flying a nonspinning, ballistic trajectory with a 70 deg sphere–cone aeroshell (2.65 m diameter), a disk–gap–band parachute, and pulsed terminal descent and landing engines. InSight and Phoenix exhibited similar behavior, primarily in terms of trim attitude and an uninitiated roll reversal correlated with dynamic pressure, although the behaviors observed for InSight were more severe. For InSight, the initial clockwise roll and nonzero trim angle of attack were significant contributors to a short timeline, larger-than-predicted deceleration loads, and cross-track and up-track errors in landing location. The InSight and Phoenix reconstructions together indicate behavior more characteristic of a single, continuous instability region, suggesting that errors in the trim behavior from hypersonic nonequilibrium aerodynamics predictions along the dynamic pressure pulse may have a more substantial impact on nonspinning, ballistic entry vehicle performance.


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    Title :

    Aerodynamic Performance of the InSight Mars Lander



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2021-07-30


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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