This slide presentation reviews the status of the development of a robotic lunar lander. The goal of the project is to perform engineering tests and risk reduction activities to support the development of a small lunar lander for lunar surface science. This includes: (1) risk reduction for the flight of the robotic lander, (i.e., testing and analyzing various phase of the project); (2) the incremental development for the design of the robotic lander, which is to demonstrate autonomous, controlled descent and landing on airless bodies, and design of thruster configuration for 1/6th of the gravity of earth; (3) cold gas test article in flight demonstration testing; (4) warm gas testing of the robotic lander design; (5) develop and test landing algorithms; (6) validate the algorithms through analysis and test; and (7) tests of the flight propulsion system.


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    Title :

    Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project Status


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) ; 2010 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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