On February 18th, 2021, NASA landed Perseverance on the Jezero crater (on Mars). An entry Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) system delivered the vehicle to the desired landing ellipse. The navigation filter propagated position and attitude states initialized from cruise using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) measurements. The entry guidance modulated the lift vector through bank commands to reach the parachute deploy conditions. The entry controller commanded the propulsive Reaction Control System (RCS) to track the bank commands while doing rate damping on angle-of-attack and sideslip. This paper describes the design and the as-flown performance of the entry controller.


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    Title :

    Mars 2020 Perseverance Entry Controller Design and Flight Reconstruction


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2021-08-09


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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