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.


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    Title :

    Overview of the NASA Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis Study



    Conference:

    AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference and Exposition ; 2010 ; Anaheim, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-08-31


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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