NASA senior management commissioned the Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis (EDL-SA) Study in 2008 to identify and roadmap the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) technology investments that the agency needed to make in order to successfully land large payloads at Mars for both robotic and human-scale missions. This paper summarizes the approach and top-level results from Year 1 of the Study, which focused on landing 10-50 mt on Mars, but also included a trade study of the best advanced parachute design for increasing the landed payloads within the EDL architecture of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.
Overview of the NASA Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis Study
2010
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Astronautics , Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , Descent , Mars missions , Atmospheric entry , Mars landing , Design analysis , Descent trajectories , Atmospheric entry simulation , Landing simulation , Interplanetary flight , Mars exploration , Soft landing , Payloads , Preflight analysis , Earth-mars trajectories , Computerized simulation , Spacecraft maneuvers
Overview of the NASA Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis Study
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