Landing humans on Mars will require entry, descent, and landing capability beyond the current state of the art. Nearly twenty times more delivered payload and an order of magnitude improvement in precision landing capability will be necessary. To better assess entry, descent, and landing technology options and sensitivities to future human mission design variations, a series of design studies on human-class Mars landers has been initiated. This paper describes the results of the first design study in the series of studies to be completed in 2016 and includes configuration, trajectory and subsystem design details for a lander with Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) entry technology. Future design activities in this series will focus on other entry technology options.


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    Title :

    Human Mars Lander Design for NASA's Evolvable Mars Campaign


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2016 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-03-05


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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