Power Systems for the Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) Mission JPL, California Institute of Technology

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Shirbacheh, Mike, author.

Conference Name:

27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992) (1992-08-03 : San Diego, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1992

Summary:

Mars Environmental Survey Mission (MESUR) is intended to be a low cost, near term mission to study the chemical composition of Martian surface, structure and circulation of Mars' atmosphere, and the structure and dynamics of Mars' interior. To meet the science objectives of the mission, a network of 16 landers will be placed at various latitudes and longitudes of Mars. The paper identifies various options for powering the landers and lists the attributes of each option. The current strategy is to precede the lander launch and deployment with an engineering demo mission called the Pathfinder which would demonstrate the landing strategy and the engineering subsystems. The paper briefly describes the challenges involved in the power system development for the Pathfinder mission

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Publisher Number:

929124

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