caa a22 4500 606245057 CHVBK 20210128101333.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12567-015-0091-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12567-015-0091-3 In-flight experience of the Mars Science Laboratory Guidance, Navigation, and Control system for Entry, Descent, and Landing [Elektronische Daten] [Miguel Martin, Gavin Mendeck, Paul Brugarolas, Gurkirpal Singh, Frederick Serricchio, Steven Lee, Edward Wong, John Essmiller] The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) project successfully landed the rover Curiosity in Gale crater in August 5, 2012, thus demonstrating and validating a series of technical innovations and advances which resulted in a quantum leap in Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) performance relative to previous missions. These included the first use at Mars of Entry Guidance to reduce the size of the landing ellipse and the first use of the SkyCrane landing architecture to enable the placement of a 1ton class rover on the surface of the red planet. Both of these advances required innovations in the design, analysis and testing of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control system. This paper will start with a high-level description of the MSL EDL/GN&C system design and performance requirements, followed by a brief discussion of the risks and uncertainties as they were understood prior to landing, and the actual in-flight GN&C performance as reconstructed from telemetry. Finally, this paper will address areas of improvements for future Mars EDL missions. CEAS, 2015 EDL nationallicence GN&C nationallicence Mars nationallicence NASA nationallicence MSL nationallicence Curiosity nationallicence Martin Miguel Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Mendeck Gavin NASA Johnson Space Center, 77058, Houston, TX, USA aut Brugarolas Paul Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Singh Gurkirpal Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Serricchio Frederick Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Lee Steven Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Wong Edward Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut Essmiller John Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut CEAS Space Journal Springer Vienna 7/2(2015-06-01), 119-142 1868-2502 7:2<119 2015 7 12567 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-015-0091-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-015-0091-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martin Miguel Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mendeck Gavin NASA Johnson Space Center, 77058, Houston, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brugarolas Paul Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Singh Gurkirpal Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Serricchio Frederick Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Steven Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wong Edward Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Essmiller John Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- CEAS Space Journal Springer Vienna 7/2(2015-06-01), 119-142 1868-2502 7:2<119 2015 7 12567