Future crewed missions to Mars require improvements in landed mass capability beyond that which is possible using state-of-the-art Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) systems. Current systems are capable of an estimated maximum landed mass of 1-1.5 metric tons (MT), while human Mars studies require 20-40 MT. A set of technologies were investigated by the EDL Systems Analysis (SA) project to assess the performance of candidate EDL architectures. A single architecture was selected for the design of a robotic precursor mission, entitled Exploration Feed Forward (EFF), whose objective is to demonstrate these technologies. In particular, inflatable aerodynamic decelerators (IADs) and supersonic retro-propulsion (SRP) have been shown to have the greatest mass benefit and extensibility to future exploration missions. In order to evaluate these technologies and develop the mission, candidate guidance algorithms have been coded into the simulation for the purposes of studying system performance. These guidance algorithms include aerocapture, entry, and powered descent. The performance of the algorithms for each of these phases in the presence of dispersions has been assessed using a Monte Carlo technique.


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    Title :

    Trajectory Guidance for Mars Robotic Precursors: Aerocapture, Entry, Descent, and Landing


    Contributors:
    R. R. Sostaric (author) / C. Zumwalt (author) / E. Garcia-Llama (author) / R. Powell (author) / J. Shidner (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    17 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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