Aerial Deployment and Inflation System for Mars Helium Balloons

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Aerial Deployment and Inflation System for Mars Helium Balloons

Lachenmeler, Tim / Fairbrother, Debora / Shreves, Chris / Hall, Jeffery, L. / Kerzhanovich, Viktor V. / Pauken, Michael T. / Walsh, Gerald J. / White, Christopher V.

Abstract

A method is examined for safely deploying and inflating helium balloons for missions at Mars. The key for making it possible to deploy balloons that are light enough to be buoyant in the thin, Martian atmosphere is to mitigate the transient forces on the balloon that might tear it. A fully inflated Mars balloon has a diameter of 10 m, so it must be folded up for the trip to Mars, unfolded upon arrival, and then inflated with helium gas in the atmosphere. Safe entry into the Martian atmosphere requires the use of an aeroshell vehicle, which protects against severe heating and pressure loads associated with the hypersonic entry flight. Drag decelerates the aeroshell to supersonic speeds, then two parachutes deploy to slow the vehicle down to the needed safe speed of 25 to 35 m/s for balloon deployment. The parachute system descent dynamic pressure must be approximately 5 Pa or lower at an altitude of 4 km or more above the surface.

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Dokumentinformationen

Titel :

Aerial Deployment and Inflation System for Mars Helium Balloons

Beteiligte:

Lachenmeler, Tim (Autor:in) / Fairbrother, Debora (Autor:in) / Shreves, Chris (Autor:in) / Hall, Jeffery, L. (Autor:in) / Kerzhanovich, Viktor V. (Autor:in) / Pauken, Michael T. (Autor:in) / Walsh, Gerald J. (Autor:in) / White, Christopher V. (Autor:in)

Erschienen in:

NASA Tech Briefs, July 2009

Erscheinungsdatum :

2009-07-01

Medientyp :

Sonstige

Format :

Keine Angabe

Sprache :

Englisch

Schlagwörter :

Technology Utilization And Surface Transportation