Speaker
Eric Joffre
(Airbus Defence and Space)
Description
Bi-lateral discussions between NASA and the European
Space Agency identified the orbiter element as a promising
European-led contribution to a future international Mars Sample
Return campaign. Airbus recently completed the Mars
Sample Return Architecture Assessment Study on behalf of
ESA, with the objective to identify and quantify candidate
mission architectures. The paper describes the mission analysis
that has been conducted to support preliminary system
design, launch mass estimation and mission timeline for the
architectures investigated. It includes the optimisation of interplanetary
transfers, Mars operations including aerobraking
and rendezvous, up to Earth re-entry conditions.
Primary authors
Eric Joffre
(Airbus Defence and Space)
Mr
Uwe Derz
(Airbus)
Mrs
Marie-Claire Perkinson
(Airbus)
Mr
Jakob Huesing
(ESA)
Ms
Friederike Beyer
(ESA)
Mr
Jose-Manuel Sanchez Perez
(ESOC)
