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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 98 - Williamsburg - October 2006
Agenda Location	6 SUBCOMMITTEE B - MISSILES AND SPACE 6.2 Overview of Entry, Descent, and Landing for Mars Science Laboratory
Title	Overview of Entry, Descent, and Landing for Mars Science Laboratory
Presenter	Daniel Burkhart
Affiliation	JPL
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Abstract	The long-term effort of robotic exploration of Mars by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program will continue in 2010 with the arrival of Mars Science Laboratory, a rover designed to assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. To find out, the rover would carry the largest, most advanced suite of science instruments ever sent to the Martian surface. To deliver this payload safely to the surface of Mars, the next generation of Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) systems will be implemented, including a guided lifting entry, the largest parachute ever deployed at Mars and an innovative soft landing system dubbed “Sky Crane”. This presentation describes these key EDL elements in terms of the requirements that drive it, specifically delivery of a large payload with higher accuracy, a higher landing site altitude and a wider range of accessible landing latitudes than possible without these advances. A complete notional EDL timeline is then presented that integrates these key elements.