This slide presentation reviews the entry, descent and landing (EDL) of a pinpoint landing (PPL) on Mars. These PPL missions will be required to deliver about 1000 kg of useful payload to the surface of Mars, therefore soft landings are of primary interest. The landing sites will be in a mid to to high latitude with possible sites about 2.5 km above the martian mean surface altitude. The applicable EDL is described and reviewed in phases. The evaluation approach is reviewed and the requirements for an accurate landing are reviewed. The descent of the unguided aeroshell entry phase dispersion due to trajectory and ballistic coefficient variations are shown in charts. These charts view the dispersions from three entries, Entry from orbit, and two types of direct entry. There is discussion of the differences in steerable subsonic parachute control vs dispersions, and the propulsive phase delta velocity vs dispersions. Data is presented for the three trajectory phases (i.e., Aeroshell, supersonic and subsonic chute) for Direct entry and low orbit entry. The results of the analysis is presented, including possibilities for mitigation of dispersions. The analysis of the navigation error is summarized, and the trajectory biasing for martian winds is assessed.


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    Title :

    Enabling Pinpoint Landing on Mars


    Contributors:
    Hattis, Phil (author) / George, Sean (author) / Wolf, Aron A. (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Conference ; 2005 ; Munich, Germany


    Publication date :

    2005-05-24


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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