Dragonfly is a New Frontiers Program mission that will deliver a rotorcraft to Saturn's moon, Titan. This mission follows Huygens as the previous mission that successfully landed a vehicle on Titan. A flight mechanics simulation of Dragonfly's Entry, Descent, and Landing sequence has been developed using the Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories II. The simulation incorporates several subsystem models, including aerodynamics, gravity, and mass properties, to fully capture the multi-body six degree of freedom dynamics. Among all the subsystem models that inform the Entry, Descent, and Landing dynamics, the atmosphere model of Titan is a critical component. The atmosphere model characterizes the density, temperature, pressure, and winds that the entry vehicle experiences during the descent. This impacts several aspects of the descent such as the peak heating, aerodynamics, parachute release conditions, the dynamics of the vehicle and parachutes, and the landing ellipse. In the course of developing Dragonfly, an updated model of the Titan atmosphere has been created corresponding to Dragonfly's arrival in the mid-2030s, approximately one Titan year after the Huygens mission successfully landed a probe on Titan. This work leverages previous work done to investigate Huygens EDL sequence to assess the atmosphere model developed for Dragonfly. This is done by utilizing the updated Titan atmosphere model, the Dragonfly atmosphere model, within the Huygens POST2-based flight simulation with the goal of characterizing the differences between the atmospheric models and assessing how the Dragonfly atmosphere model impacts Huygens entry dynamics.


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    Titel :

    Assessing Huygens Probe Entry, Descent, and Landing at Titan Simulation using Dragonfly Atmosphere Model


    Beteiligte:
    A. Pensado (Autor:in) / C. Robb (Autor:in) / R. Winski (Autor:in) / J. Williams (Autor:in) / M. Belair (Autor:in) / R. Lorenz (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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