This paper presents a summary of the testing and analysis used to quantify the expected airbag landing loads for the Mars Exploration Rovers. The airbag drop test setup, lander instrumentation, and the test data reduction method are discussed in order to provide an understanding of the empirical loads. A set of limiting cases that bound the empirical data are developed for use in finite element modeling of the lander and rover models.


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    Title :

    Mars Exploration Rover airbag landing loads testing and analsysis


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    45th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamincs & Materials Conference


    Publication date :

    2004-04-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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