The Mars Science Laboratory Touchdown Test Facility

Christopher White,John K. Frankovich,Phillip Yates,George Wells,Robert Losey

The Mars Science Laboratory Touchdown Test Facility

2009

Christopher White
John K. Frankovich
Phillip Yates
George Wells
Robert Losey

In the Touchdown Test Program for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, a facility was developed to use a full-scale rover vehicle and an overhead winch system to replicate the Skycrane landing event.

Keywords:

Mars landing
Aeronautics
Exploration of Mars
Mars Exploration Program
Engineering
Touchdown
Aerospace engineering
test facility
Winch
test program

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