InSight touched down in Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018, becoming NASA’s eighth successful entry, descent, and landing (EDL) at Mars. InSight was a build-to-print of the successful 2008 Phoenix EDL system, flying a non-spinning, ballistic trajectory with a 70-degree sphere-cone aeroshell (2.65-meter diameter), disk-gap-band parachute, and pulsed terminal descent and landing engines. This work discusses entry aerodynamic performance for InSight up to parachute deployment, including pre-flight aerodynamics predictions and comparisons with post-flight reconstruction, as well as comparisons with the Phoenix reconstruction.


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    Title :

    Aerodynamic Performance of the 2018 InSight Mars Lander



    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech 2020 ; 2020 ; Orlando, FL, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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