NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which landed the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on August 5th, 2012, was the largest and heaviest Mars entry vehicle representing a significant advancement in planetary entry, descent and landing capability. Hypersonic flight performance data was collected using MSLs on-board sensors called Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI). This talk will give an overview of MSL entry and a description of MEDLI sensors. Observations from flight data will be examined followed by a discussion of analysis efforts to reconstruct surface heating from heatshields in-depth temperature measurements. Finally, a brief overview of MEDLI2 instrumentation, which will fly on NASAs Mars2020 mission, will be presented with a discussion on how lessons learned from MEDLI data affected the design of MEDLI2 instrumentation.


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    Title :

    Mars Science Laboratory Heatshield Flight Data Analysis


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Hypersonic Vehicle Flight Prediction Workshop ; 2017 ; Colorado Springs, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-06-21


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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