Spacecraft and Mars Orbiter Mission

Many feel that the United States should lead a crewed mission to discover the planet of Mars. Mars One, a settlement, has started a goal to initiate human life on the Red Planet. However, are humans really capable for Mars? There are two sides of the argument. Many are agreeing on starting the mission while others are contracted by the idea. I, for one, believe the mission should not take place. Difficulties NASA has to overcome, the safety of the trip, and the costs of the whole mission are many of the opposing factors of starting a journey to the Red Planet.

As humanity prepares to move from the earth to other planets it must do it safely. A manned mission to Mars is the next step in the human exploration of space. The major hurdles to accomplish this feat are vast and varying in type. You must define and insure the architecture for your launch, spacecraft, travel to and from Mars, and of course astronaut safety. An effective mission architecture must provide a particular kind of balance between accomplishing the critical parameters and being prepared. This paper will cover how the architecture is designed for success towards transporting humans through space, landing them on Mars, and returning them safely home.

It is an understatement to say that the Mars Exploration Rover mission is successful, as the findings that were uncovered during this mission was iconic as it helped identify many unknown questions of the planet, Mars. This mission that was carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA, which had employed two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to travel miles around the terrain of Mars to collect the data and findings, which would then transfer it back to Earth. This paper will discuss many challenges that the Mars Exploration Rover mission had encountered, whilst also highlighting through the findings and data, the many breakthroughs and achievements that had been made during the lifecycle of the project. Therefore, through analysing and evaluating the advancements and shortcomings of this mission, we can continually make improvements on the methods of space exploration and have a greater understanding of the past

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Today is March 13th, 2114, just over 110 years since the first Mars rovers landed on the surface of Mars. Yet, little progress has been made in developing a human colony amidst the many issues that plague humans attempting to survive on the surface. Many people look back on the incidents of 2078, 2092, and most recently 2106 as reasons to not continue to explore Mars. Each one of those colonies of 300 people lasted less than a year before the last human was dead and the colony was considered a failure. Most people look back at the 2106 incident as reason to not settle on Mars. On February 23rd, 2106, a blast of Solar Energetic Particles with an energy of nearly

The topic of Mars has long been of interest to astronomers and science fiction enthusiast alike. The premise of another planet supporting life excites people like no other. In 2004, The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, began preliminary science experiments and instrument proposals for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and a robotic space probe mission to Mars. After long testing and development stages, the mission birthed a rover, Curiosity, which was launched in November 2011 and subsequently landed August 6th 2012. As we speak Curiosity is collecting invaluable data for our understanding of mars including: habitability, climate and geology, and possibly setting up a manned mission to mars in the

The Mars One Company, is scamming its supporters millions of dollars into a fake mission! The Mars One project has remained for awhile as a legitimate company, but experts and scammed donors have found majour flaws in the Mars One Mission. Many of the experts have found several errors and discrepancies when they more closely examined the Company. This in turn has led many to conclude that Mars One is not a legitimate space agency, and people should not be investing time, resources, and money into this untrustworthy company.

Mars is an interesting and mysterious planet. It is often referred to as the Red Planet. The Romans named Mars after the god of war. The rocks, soil, and sky all have a red hue on account of rust. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 141 million miles (228 million kilometers) and the last terrestrial planet from the Sun. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth (6,794-km) and about one-tenth of Earth s mass (6.419 x 1023 kg). Thus the force of gravity on Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Mars is probably the planet we know the most about since it is so close to Earth, though what we know now is not even close to everything about the planet. Over

In 2020, NASA is going to launch a rover to Mars. The rover will be on Mars for one Mars year which is the equivalent of 687 earth days. This special mission is to find out more about future life on Mars. The rover will be carried to Mars by a specially designed spacecraft. The rover will be equipped with the best technology to ensure connection with Earth.

In the reading, the author claims that the project of sending humans to Mars would not be practical pointing out 3 problems of support. However, finding all the problems questionable and implausible, the lecturer repudiates the claim and present some solutions for these problems so that the mission would be possible.

…4…3…2…1… Blast off! The first manned mission to Mars had taken off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The second space race was over and America's only real competitor was Russia which America had beaten. There were countless cheers as the ship launched into space. The point of the mission? To find out for certain if there was intelligent life on Mars. Also the population on Earth was getting too big for such little space and the astronauts-soon to be Martians-would see if it was possible for humans to live on Mars with the proper equipment.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two similar twin robotic rovers which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times longer as compared to its original design. As part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, the Mars Exploration Rover mission is a continuous multi-mission effort to study Mars as a possible habitation for past or present life and to look for signs of life as well as to prepare for human exploration. Primary objective of the Mars Exploration Rover mission is to explore and characterize a wide range of soils and rocks that possess clues or evidences to past water activity on Mars (NASA 2012).

NASA researchers Nicole Herrman, Douglas Craig, and Patrick Troutman in their article “The Evolvable Mars Campaign-Study Status” outline characteristics of the Martian environment that can potentially aid a manned mission to Mars. Even though the environment on Mars is harmful to a living Earth organism (without a spacesuit) it aids our production of creating a stable environment for us and using our equipment. Some of the ways the NASA researchers have found about the Mars environment that can be use an accrued man mission comes in play of its been atmosphere Mars is moons in the lack of oxygen.

The Mars observer “was based on a commercial Earth-orbiting communications satellite that had been converted into an orbiter for Mars. The payload of science instruments was designed to study the geology, geophysics and climate of Mars” (Greicius). The Mars observer was unsuccessful when NASA lost touch with the spacecraft right before it was going to enter orbit around Mars. The next spacecraft was that was launched was the Mars Pathfinder, which was launched on December 4, 1996. The Mars Pathfinder returned large amount of data when it explored an ancient flood plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The next spacecraft that was sent to Mars was the Mars Climate Observer Orbiter which launched on December 11, 1998. This was “designed to function as an interplanetary weather satellite and a communications relay for Mars Polar Lander. The orbiter carried two science instruments: a copy of an atmospheric sounder on the Mars Observer spacecraft lost in 1993, and a new, lightweight color imager combining wide- and medium-angle cameras” (Greicius). The Mars Climate Observer Orbiter was lost upon arrival on September 23, 1999. Engineers concluded that the spacecraft probably blew up after it entered the planet’s atmosphere too low. The next spacecraft was the Mars Polar Lander which launched on January 3, 1999. Its mission

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