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HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

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

February 2004<br />

page 296 of 422<br />

Figure 4-45: MEV Modes<br />

The MEV power subsystem has to cope with three different types of mission requirements:<br />

• during the descent: power needs to be supplied in a short time with some peak power<br />

constraint (pyros…)<br />

• during the surface operations: important level of power needs to be supplied for a<br />

long duration with possibility to generate power<br />

• during the launch, the parking orbits and the rendezvous: power needs to be supplied<br />

for a few days with a possibility to store energy during the sunlight, to have enough<br />

energy available for the eclipses and non-Sun pointed phases.<br />

Since the power system designed for the surface operations is able to cope with high power level<br />

during periods of 14 hours, it can also cover the energy requirements for the descent phase.<br />

Therefore, it has been chosen in this study not to develop a specific power subsystem for the<br />

descent phase. Nevertheless, a dedicated DM power subsystem is not excluded given that its<br />

mass would be negligible compared to the total MEV mass.<br />

On the MAV’s side, the mass is an important mission driver. Consequently, the implementation<br />

of the huge power subsystem required for the surface operation inside the MAV has been<br />

rejected. However, such a design would be possible in some particular cases for example when<br />

using fuel cells by keeping the useless and empty reactant tanks outside of the MAV.<br />

The MEV power system is composed of:<br />

• one power system inside the SHM which is also used by the DM<br />

• one power system located in the MAV for supplying the power after the launch from<br />

Mars.<br />

These two subsystems are completely independent, except that the MAV power subsystem can<br />

be charged by the SHM power system to the launch.<br />

4.3.5.2.2 Power requirements<br />

In this study, the power requirements have been computed unit per unit and mode per mode<br />

(DM: Figure 4-46, SHM: Figure 4-47, MAV: Figure 4-48).<br />

Each unit power profile is defined by three values:<br />

• a peak power<br />

• a standby power

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