Deployable Entry Vehicle (DEV) technology has made significant advances over the last decade with ground test development campaigns and flight test demonstrations. DEVs offer benefits over traditional rigid entry vehicles including lower volume and mass, while enabling larger payload delivery and greater landing access. A crucial mission benefit is the DEV capability to transform from a compactly stowed configuration within the launch vehicle to a high drag area entry system for delivery of landers, rovers, aerial platforms, and orbiters (via aerocapture). These benefits span the range of mission classes from Small Satellite (smallsat) to human-class exploration systems. This paper will describe DEV technology development status, highlight mission concepts, and recommend future investments.


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    Title :

    Deployable Entry Vehicles for Future Science and Exploration Missions


    Contributors:
    Alan Cassell (author) / Neil Cheatwood (author) / Steven Hughes (author) / Cole Kazemba (author) / Greg Swanson (author)

    Publication date :

    2020-09-15


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English