The Small Mars Satellite (SMS) is a proposed mission to Mars. The project is being funded by the General Studies Programme of the European Space Agency and has recently successfully concluded Phase 0 (feasibility study). The prime contractor is ALI S.c.a.r.l. (Naples), and the study team includes the University of Naples “Federico II” (UniNA), the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (INAF-AOC, Naples) and the Space Studies Institute of Catalonia (IEEC, Barcelona). The objectives of the mission are technological and scientific, and consist in delivering to Mars a small lander carrying a dust particle analyser (DPA), developed by INAF-AOC, and an aerial drone (AD), proposed and designed by UniNA. The former shall perform in situ measurements of the size distribution and abundance of the dust particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere, whereas the latter shall execute multiple, low-altitude flights in the rarified environment of the red planet. The mission-enabling technology is an innovative deployable heat shield (DHS), whose original design is known as IRENE (Italian ReEntry NacellE), developed and patented by ALI.
The Small Mars Satellite: a European small-size Mars lander / Fantino, E.; Aurigemma, R.; Causa, Flavia; Cimminiello, N.; de la Torre, D.; Dellaversana, P.; Esposito, F.; Gramiccia, L.; Grassi, Michele; Molfese, C.; Pasolini, Pietro; Paudice, F.; Punzo, F.; Savino, Raffaele; Zuppardi, Gennaro. - (2016), pp. 1-8. (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Systems & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications Conference (SECESA) tenutosi a Madrid nel 5-7 Ottobre 2016).
The Small Mars Satellite: a European small-size Mars lander
Causa, Flavia;GRASSI, MICHELE;PASOLINI, PIETRO;SAVINO, RAFFAELE;ZUPPARDI, GENNARO
2016
Abstract
The Small Mars Satellite (SMS) is a proposed mission to Mars. The project is being funded by the General Studies Programme of the European Space Agency and has recently successfully concluded Phase 0 (feasibility study). The prime contractor is ALI S.c.a.r.l. (Naples), and the study team includes the University of Naples “Federico II” (UniNA), the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (INAF-AOC, Naples) and the Space Studies Institute of Catalonia (IEEC, Barcelona). The objectives of the mission are technological and scientific, and consist in delivering to Mars a small lander carrying a dust particle analyser (DPA), developed by INAF-AOC, and an aerial drone (AD), proposed and designed by UniNA. The former shall perform in situ measurements of the size distribution and abundance of the dust particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere, whereas the latter shall execute multiple, low-altitude flights in the rarified environment of the red planet. The mission-enabling technology is an innovative deployable heat shield (DHS), whose original design is known as IRENE (Italian ReEntry NacellE), developed and patented by ALI.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
