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• The candidate TCS architecture shall be also capable of:<br />

• performing effectively under Martian gravity<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 280 of 422<br />

• guaranteeing adequate flexibility and reliability of the system until the end of the<br />

stay on Mars<br />

• guaranteeing the performance of the system for any spacecraft attitude during<br />

transfer and for any orientation after landing, this for all thermal loads derived<br />

from the mission requirements<br />

• optimising the heat management system in term of efficiency versus penalties to<br />

the system (mass, energy consumption)<br />

• Safety shall be guaranteed by adequate provision of thermal hardware for the whole mission<br />

(necessary autonomy of the crew)<br />

• TCS shall be fully verifiable/testable on ground<br />

4.3.4.2 Assumptions<br />

4.3.4.2.1 Transfer phase thermal environment<br />

The same environment as for the transfer vehicle applies for the Mars Excursion vehicle<br />

including the Habitation Module. A conservative approach is to consider envelopes through<br />

worst-case scenarios:<br />

Solar flux [W/m 2 ] Planet albedo Planet IR [W/m 2 ]<br />

Hot case (Earth LEO, WS, 1 AU) 1423 0.33 241<br />

Hot case (Mars orbit, perihelion, 1.38 AU) 2 717 0.29 (subsolar) 470 (subsolar) to 30<br />

Cold case (Mars orbit, aphelion, 1.66 AU) 3 493 0.29 (subsolar) 315 (subsolar) to 30<br />

Table 4-10: Thermal cases definition<br />

Note that with respect to Mars arrival and departure dates, the vehicle passes aphelion and<br />

perihelion and that hot and cold cases around Mars depend to a certain extent on the orbit of the<br />

spacecraft (and thermal characteristics of the underneath regions). The worst cold case is sought<br />

with long eclipse duration: 500 km circular orbit and a coplanar Sun (beta 0) give a 13.6-minute<br />

eclipse out of a 40.2-minute orbit.<br />

4.3.4.2.2 Martian thermal environment<br />

Environmental thermal loads depend on the landing site and on the relative position of Mars with<br />

regards to the Sun. A mapping of Martian thermal characteristics is shown in Figure 4-28 to<br />

show the disparity of the induced environment. A higher albedo drives a lower temperature,<br />

while a low thermal inertia accelerates the variation of temperature.

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