Landing humans on Mars will require entry, descent, and landing capability beyond the current state of the art. Nearly twenty times more delivered payload and an order of magnitude improvement in precision landing capability will be necessary. To better assess entry, descent, and landing technology options and sensitivities to future human mission design variations, a series of design studies has been initiated. This paper describes the results of the first design study in the series of studies to be completed in 2016 and includes system and subsystem design details including mass and power estimates for a lander design using the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) entry technology. Future design activities in this series will focus on other entry technology options.


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    Title :

    Human Mars lander design for NASA's evolvable mars campaign


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    Publication date :

    2016-03-01


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    1693419 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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