The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission will land two landers on the surface of Mars, arriving in January 2004. Both landers will deliver the rovers to the surface by decelerating with the aid of an aeroshell, a supersonic parachute, retro-rockets, and air bags for safely landing on the surface. The reconstruction of the MER descent trajectory and atmosphere profile will be performed for all the phases from hypersonic flight through landing. A description of multiple methodologies for the flight reconstruction is presented from simple parameter identification methods through a statistical Kalman filter approach.


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    Title :

    Entry Trajectory and Atmosphere Reconstruction Methodologies for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Workshop on Planetary Probe Atmospheric Entry and Descent Trajectory Analysis and Science ; 2003 ; Lisbon, Portugal


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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