This slide presentation reviews the technology developments required to achieve pinpoint landing for a Mars landing of a future unmanned vehicle. It addresses some of the challenges to achieving accurate landing (i.e., to 2-3 kilometers) of a designated landing site. The major challenge though is to reduce the possible propellant requirement to achieve this pinpoint landing capability which requires minimizing delivery error at powered descent ignition.


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    Title :

    Pinpoint Landing Technology Assessment


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    MSR Technology Workshop ; 2008 ; Houston, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-02-07


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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