The twin rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover Project successfully landed on the surface of Mars in January 2004, and initiated a highly successful science and exploration campaign. This marked the culmination of an unprecedented four-year effort to design, build, launch, and operate two of the most complex planetary spacecraft ever built. The project was started in the aftermath of the 1999 Mars mission failures, and was commissioned to take advantage of the highly advantageous 2003 opportunity. The development schedule from project start to launch was only 35 months, so schedule management was the most significant challenge facing the project. This problem was compounded when early assumptions about the extent of design heritage from Mars Pathfinder proved to be flawed. The project derived a number of useful lessons learned in solving these challenges that can be applied to future missions.


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    Title :

    The Mars Exploration Rover Project


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Astronautical Congress ; 2004 ; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


    Publication date :

    2004-10-02


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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