Conceptual Design of Mars Lander with Novel Impact Intriguing System

TL;DR

This paper presents a conceptual design for a novel impact intriguing system to enhance soft-landing capabilities of Mars landers, aiming to improve safety and robustness during challenging entry, descent, and landing phases.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new impact intriguing system design that addresses limitations of traditional shock absorbers for large-scale, crewed Mars landings.

Findings

Proposes a mechanical impact intriguing system for Mars landers.

Designed to ensure soft-landing despite EDL sequence obstructions.

Aims to protect lander modules and instruments during defective landings.

Abstract

Landing robotic spacecrafts and humans on Mars has become one of the inevitable technological necessities for humans. Effectuating perfect Mars expedition requires landing of enormous cargoes, crewed modules, ascent vehicles, and scientific laboratories. Crash-landing destructs landing modules due to a lack of adequate impact absorbers. Moreover, the existence of deformable shock absorbers like Aluminium honeycomb and carbon fibers within landing gears are defeasible for large-scale mass and crewed landing. Further in the EDL scenario, switching of events within a limited span of 5 to 8 minutes appears to be the most challenging task for landers. Scrutinizing these concerns, we propose a novel impact intriguing system that will be more achievable for extensive landing missions. This paper represents the conceptual design of Mars lander and we expect that subject to any obstruction in EDL sequence, this mechanical system will endorse soft-landing in forthcoming missions. Hence our ultimate aim is to protect lander modules and their instruments over the defective landing.