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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Mars Lander Configuration
There are three main tools for hypersonic flight vehicle design, namely flight testing, CFD and ground-based testing. The flight testing cost and...
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Lander Operations
A special case of interplanetary missions includes devices that land on a planetary surface or descend through an atmosphere. Operations become more...
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End-to-end Mars entry, descent, and landing modeling and simulations for Tianwen-1 guidance, navigation, and control system
On May 15, 2021, the Tianwen-1 lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. To ensure the success of the landing mission, an end-to-end...
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HAZARD DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE FOR THE NOVA-C LANDER
In early 2022, Intuitive Machines’ NOVA-C Lander will touch down on the lunar surface becoming the first commercial endeavor to visit a celestial...
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Mobile Mars Habitation
This chapter focuses on the concept of mobile habitation on Mars. A description of Mars’ surface features is followed by a review of early concepts...
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Planetary Exploration of Mars
During the last six decades of planetary exploration, rapid developments in technology have helped enable the exploration of Mars. To demonstrate the...
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Landing site positioning and descent trajectory reconstruction of Tianwen-1 on Mars
Tianwen-1 (TW-1) is the first Chinese interplanetary mission to have accomplished orbiting, landing, and patrolling in a single exploration of Mars....
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Task-Oriented Topology System Synthesis of Reconfigurable Legged Mobile Lander Integrating Active and Passive Metamorphoses
To explore hostile extraterrestrial landforms and construct an engineering prototype, this paper presents the task-oriented topology system synthesis...
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Lightweight Thermal Protection System for the Mars Probe
This paper introduces the lightweight thermal protection system (TPS) of The Chinese Mars probe Tianwen-1. The aerodynamic environmental conditions...
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Landing Dynamic Analysis for Landing Leg of Lunar Lander Using Nonlinear Finite Element Method
To accurately determine the loads and energy absorption capability, which plays a vital role in the design and optimization process of a new landing...
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Flight Control Practice of Relay Communication Service for Mars Exploration
To overcome the remote TT&C problem in Mars exploration, in which the TT&C distance reaches as far as 400 million kilometers, it is essential to...
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Mars Entry Trajectory Optimization with Desensitized Optimal Control
This chapter describes the Mars entry trajectory optimization in presence of uncertainties and control saturation by use of desensitized optimal...
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Maximizing Dust Devil Follow-Up Observations on Mars Using Cubesats and On-Board Scheduling
Several million dust devil events occur on Mars every day. These events last, on average, about 30 minutes and range in size from meters to hundreds...
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Evaluation of aerial vehicle configurations for high-range Mars missions
As part of an envisioned autonomous swarm exploration mission in Valles Marineris on Mars a design investigation of a high-range scout UAV is...
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Extraterrestrial Radio Access Network: The Road to Broadband Connectivity on Mars
As space agencies are planning manned missions to reach Mars in the next decades, researchers need to pave the way for supporting astronauts during...
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Dynamic Analysis of a Legged Lander System
Interplanetary missions have increased in the recent years, with spacecrafts landing successfully on Moon and Mars. The entry, descent, and landing...
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Application of the dynamic programming method to ensure of dual-channel attitude control of an asymmetric spacecraft in a rarefied atmosphere of Mars
We consider a linearized dynamic system, which determines the motion of the spacecraft relative to the center of mass in a rarefied atmosphere of...
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InSight-SEIS Instrument Deployment Operations on Mars
On November 26, 2018, the NASA InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars. This paper describes the operations that took place on Mars after that...
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LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR OF MINIATURE INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS (MIMUS) ONBOARD EXTENDED-MISSION MARS AND EARTH ORBITERS
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter (ODY), and Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) are all NASA Jet Propulsion...
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SIMULATION COMPARISON OF ENTRY AND POWERED DESCENT GUIDANCE ALGORITHMS FOR A HUMAN-SCALE MARS MISSION
Large uncertainty in atmospheric conditions at Mars make entry, descent, and landing a challenging task for human-scale missions that require safe...