Recent discoveries of evidence of a flowing liquid in craters throughout the Mars Southern Highlands, like Terra Sirenum, have spurred interest in sending science missions to those locations; however, these locations are at elevations that are much higher (0 to +4 km MOLA) than any previous landing site (-1 to -4 km MOLA). New technologies may be needed to achieve a landing at these sites with significant payload mass to the surface. A promising technology is the hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD); a number of designs have been advanced but the stacked torus has been recently successfully flight tested in the IRVE-2 and IRVE-3 projects through the NASA Langley Research Center. This paper will focus on a variety of mission applications of the stacked torus type attached HIAD to the Mars southern highlands.


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    Title :

    Mission Applications of a HIAD for the Mars Southern Highlands


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2013 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-03-02


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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