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Claudio Bruno, Antonella Ingenito and Domenico Simone
A human Mars mission is more challenging to astronauts than the Apollo mission because of travel time, life support requirements, and the space environment. Although plans for Mars exploration by NASA and SpaceX based on conventional rockets have been pr...
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Maël Renault and Vaios Lappas
The recent growth in maturity of paraffin-based hybrid propulsion systems reassesses the possibility to design an alternative Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) propelled by a European hybrid motor. As part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign, a Hybrid MAV w...
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Xinli Li, Yansong Li, Dayong Hu, Wei Rao, Yufeng Qi, Qiang Yang and Gang Wang
The trim flap is an aerodynamic control surface capable of allowing Mars entry vehicles to improve landing performance during the most dangerous entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phase. In present work, a deployable trim flap system was proposed to meet ...
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Lars Witte, Gabriele Arnold, Jan Bertram, Matthias Grott, Caroline Krämer, Andreas Lorek and Torben Wippermann
The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group has identified measurements of the state and the variability of the Martian atmosphere as high priority investigations for the upcoming years. Balloon-borne instruments could bridge the gap in both temporal and...
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Adrien Bouskela, Alexandre Kling, Tristan Schuler, Sergey Shkarayev, Himangshu Kalita and Jekan Thangavelautham
We present the preliminary design of sailplanes, used for Mars exploration. The sailplanes mitigate the weight and energy storage limitations traditionally associated with powered flight by instead exploiting atmospheric wind gradients for dynamic soarin...
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