The student should come away from this talk with a basic understanding of where and how aerodynamics fits into AEDL. We will cover basic capsule aerodynamics, analysis techniques across the speed regimes, and how we provide the aerodynamics to other disciplines via aerodynamic databases. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, both in aerospace engineering.Īerodynamic Modeling: This topic will cover how the EDL community develops aerodynamic models for the vehicles we fly and want to fly. Currently he is working on the Dragonfly mission to Titan. He has been a member of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, and Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing teams. His work involves entry, descent, and landing for planetary exploration missions, with a focus on aerodynamic decelerators. Juan Cruz is an aerospace engineer in the Atmospheric Flight and Entry Systems Branch at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Various types of aerodynamic decelerator technologies are introduced and discussed. The effect of key design parameters such as ballistic coefficient and lift-to-drag ratio on quantities of interest such as deceleration and aeroheating are presented. In this presentation trajectories are described throughout all flight regimes from entry to landing. Trajectories are at the core of Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL). in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech and started her career as a Cooperative Education student at the Johnson Space Center.ĪEDL Trajectories: A trajectory is the flight path taken by an entry vehicle through a planet’s atmosphere. Michelle has been at NASA for 34 years, working in trajectory simulation, space mission architectures, EDL technology road mapping and task management, and flight hardware development. In that role, she is responsible for guiding NASA’s EDL technology investments and advising senior leadership on the state of NASA’s skills, facilities, and tools to accomplish future exploration missions. Michelle Munk is the NASA Systems Capability Lead for Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL), supporting the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters since 2017. The talks will be given by an international cohort of subject matter experts involved in numerous past, present, and future AEDL missions.ĪEDL Overview will cover the scope and state of the art in aerocapture, entry, descent and landing (AEDL), past experiences, and challenges for upcoming missions.
This AEDL short course is intended for students and professionals, with the goal of educating scientists, engineers, mission designers with the various AEDL disciplines and how they are applied to ensure mission success.
Collecting and returning samples from the surface and Moons of Mars, landing a nuclear powered octocopter to explore Titan, flying new missions to Venus after a multi-decade hiatus, and potentially conducting the first in-depth exploration of the Ice Giants, are just a few examples of some of the exciting future work in store the AEDL community. Looking to the future, in this decade and in those to come, the planetary science missions currently in development are possible due to the depth of expertise, international collaboration, and recent technical advances in the AEDL community. Every decade we see advances across these discipline that has allowed for more and more sophisticated and daring missions. These disciplines must operate in a tightly coupled fashion to design EDL missions that safely deliver humans and cargo to planetary bodies of interest in our Solar System. The ability to use atmospheric drag to perform maneuvers during entry, followed by descent and a controlled touch down, requires specialized, discipline-oriented understanding of planetary atmospheres, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, material response, guidance, navigation and control, and other related fields. The International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW) Short Course will take place the weekend before the IPPW conference, August 27th and 28th, 2022 and will be at the same location as the main IPPW 2022, at the Delta Hotels Marriott, in Santa Clara, CA near NASA Ames Research Center.Įntry, descent, and landing (EDL) originated with the Apollo missions in the 1960s science missions to Mars, Venus and Jupiter soon followed.
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