On February 18, 2021, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed inside Jezero Crater at 18.44463 deg North latitude and 77.45088 deg East longitude. At 1026 kg, Perseverance is the largest, most sophisticated rover ever delivered to another planet. This event marked the ninth successful landing and fifth rover to be delivered at Mars. The Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories II (POST2) is a trajectory simulation tool maintained by the NASA Langley Research Center. POST2 was the prime EDL performance simulation for Mars 2020. This tool has significant heritage on the previous Pathfinder, MER, Phoenix, InSight, and MSL landings. This paper presents a few initial comparisons between EDL flight telemetry and POST2 simulation predictions. These comparisons are important in order to understand how each of the individual models performed, as well as the integrated simulation as a whole. This information is fed forward to future missions, which benefit from the knowing where additional resources or study are needed and where uncertainties may be reduced to enable improved performance.


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    Title :

    Assessment of the Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing Simulation


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    AIAA SciTech Forum ; 2022 ; San Diego, CA, US


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    Conference paper


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    English




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