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ExoMars
- Ali Gülhan
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The instrumentation package COMARS+ was part of the back cover instrumentation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander and consisted of three COMARS sensors and one broadband radiometer. The aerothermal sensors called COMARS combine four discrete sensors measuring static pressure, total heat flux, temperature and radiative heat flux. The Schiaparelli capsule was launched on top of a Proton launcher...
ESA recently flew an entry, descent, and landing demonstrator module called Schiaparelli that entered the atmosphere of Mars on the 19th of October, 2016. The instrumentation suite included heatshield and backshell pressure transducers and thermocouples (known as AMELIA) and backshell radiation and direct heatflux-sensing sensors (known as COMARS and ICOTOM). Due to the failed landing of...
The aerothermal characterization of the instrumentation package COMARS+ of the Schiaparelli lander of the Exomars 2016 mission has been carried out in Martian flow environment of the arc heated facility L2K. The combined sensors COMARS and the broadband radiometer for radiative heat flux measurements were able to successfully measure the radiative heat flux on the back cover close to the...
In spite of the crash of Schiaparelli, the Exomars Descent Module in October 2016, following a nevertheless successful aerothermodynamic entry, data from the infrared radiometers ICOTOM embedded of the COMARS modules was sent to the orbiter before and after the blackout phase. Three pairs of radiometers were located in line on the back shield of the probe in order to monitor the infrared...