Power Systems for the Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) Mission 929124
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.
Citation: Shirbacheh, M. and Chmielewski, A., "Power Systems for the Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) Mission," SAE Technical Paper 929124, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929124. Download Citation
Author(s):
Mike Shirbacheh, Art B. Chmielewski
Affiliated:
JPL, California Institute of Technology
Pages: 6
Event:
27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992)
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Chemicals
SAE MOBILUS
Subscribers can view annotate, and download all of SAE's content.
Learn More »