A multi-lander New Frontiers mission concept study for Enceladus: SILENUS

Mars Geophysical Lander Mission : a Mission Concept from the 2003 Nasa

Introduction: 2013 marks the 25 anniversary of the NASA Planetary Science Summer School (PSSS) [1], which is held every summer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide postdocs and Ph.D. students with an intensive interdisciplinary experience in planetary robotic mission design under the tutelage of JPL's Advanced Projects Design Team ("Team X") [2]. This abstract summarizes the work of...

Mission Design for Combined Lander-rover Modeling of a Skylight

Introduction: Combined lander-rover modeling is the transformational means for developing high resolution, color, three-dimensional representations of planetary features such as cave entrances and skylights. Lander-rover modeling combines registered overflight imagery with rover-based surface imaging techniques to build highly accurate co-registered models. The models produced by this approach ...

Mars Polar Lander Mission Distributed Operations

The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) mission was the first planetary mission to use Internet-based distributed ground operations where scientists and engineers collaborate in daily mission operations from multiple geographically distributed locations via the Internet. This paper describes the operations system, the Web Interface for Telescience (WITS), which was used by the MPL mission for Internet-base...

Time Optimal Closed - Loop Fuzzy - Control Strategy for Nonlinear Lunar Lander Mission

Internet-Based Operations for the Mars Polar Lander Mission

The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) mission is the first planetary mission to w e Internet-based distributed ground operations where scientista and engineers cod labornte in daily mission operations f+om multiple geographically distributed locations via the Internet. This paper describes the operations system, the Web Interface for Telescience (WITS), which is used by the MPL mission for Internet-based...