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Figure 4-85: Communications MEV/MAV-TV during take off – rendezvous and undocking-landing<br />

4.4.4.4 Budgets<br />

4.4.5 GNC<br />

Unit<br />

Number Unit massTotal<br />

massPower<br />

of units (Kg) (Kg) (W)<br />

UHF slot omnidirectional antenna 1 1.5 1.5<br />

X-band patch antenna 3 0.1 0.3<br />

Harness 3<br />

Total : 4.8 0<br />

Table 4-43: DM communications budget<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

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

February 2004<br />

page 345 of 422<br />

4.4.5.1 Requirements and design drivers<br />

The MEV entry, descent and landing is a 6-degree of freedom (6DoF) closed loop control entry<br />

with automatic steering law that will allow the safe landing of the astronauts to the Martian<br />

surface.<br />

The GNC requirements can be listed as follows:<br />

• Starting from a 3DoF optimal trajectory that satisfies certain boundary and path<br />

constraints<br />

• To find a flyable 6DoF trajectory within allowable margins that follows the optimal<br />

3DoF trajectory previously calculated off-line<br />

• To define a GNC equipment that controls and steers the MEV in terms of sensors and<br />

actuators<br />

The initial and final boundary constraints as well as the path constraints are as follows:<br />

• Safety of the astronauts with a possible manual control during entry, descent and landing<br />

• Minimise the heat flux<br />

• Maintain a given load factor for the health of the crew<br />

• Minimise the descent time to be able to cope with the limited life support system<br />

available on-board the MEV<br />

• Touch down in a specified point on the Martian surface<br />

The output of the optimal trajectory establishes the corresponding roll, pitch and yaw profiles to<br />

be followed by the control law of the MEV.<br />

The Figure 4-86 shows the MEV model during this study:

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