Assessment of potential Mars relay network enhancements
| Autor: | Roy E. Gladden, Charles D. Edwards, Charles Lee, Daniel Wenkert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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020301 aerospace & aeronautics
Orbit 0203 mechanical engineering ROVER Payload Computer science 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Systems engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications Relay network 02 engineering and technology Mars Exploration Program Atmosphere of Mars |
| Zdroj: | 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference. |
| DOI: | 10.1109/aero.2018.8396682 |
| Popis: | In anticipation of increased demands on Mars relay services, including planned arrivals of NASA's InSight Lander in November 2018, and of NASA's Mars 2020 rover and ESA's ExoMars Rover & Surface Platform mission in Feb-Mar. 2021, we have assessed a number of potential modifications and upgrades to Mars relay orbiters and quantified their impacts in terms of key relay support metrics, to support NASA and ESA programmatic decisions. Specific areas of investigation include: 1) implementation of “split-pass” relay capability for support to collocated landers, 2) modifications of the extended mission orbit for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN), and 3) introduction of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding. We report here on each of these potential upgrades, quantify the performance implications each would have on future Mars relay services in the context of future mission support scenarios, and provide a status on implementation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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