The ExoMars Schiaparelli Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) System Design

Ball, Andrew; Blancquaert, Thierry; Bayle, Olivier; Lorenzoni, L.; Haldemann, A. F. C.

doi:10.1007/s11214-022-00898-z

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“…TGO is the orbital element of the ExoMars program. TGO and the Schiaparelli Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) were launched together on 14 March 2016 and arrived at Mars seven months later (Ball et al., 2022). TGO carries four advanced scientific instruments and is also serving as a member of the Mars Relay Network.…”

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First Results of Mars Express—ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mutual Radio Occultation

Parrott,

Svedhem,

Witasse

et al. 2024

Radio Science

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Spacecraft‐to‐spacecraft radio occultations experiments are being conducted at Mars between Mars Express (MEX) and Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the first ever extensive inter‐spacecraft occultations at a planet other than Earth. Here we present results from the first 83 such occultations, conducted between 2 Nov 2020 and 5th of July 2023. Of these, 44 observations have to‐date resulted in the extraction of vertical electron density profiles. These observations are the successful results of a major feasibility study conducted by the European Space Agency to use pre‐existing relay communication equipment for radio science purposes. Mutual radio occultations have numerous advantages over traditional spacecraft‐to‐ground station occultations. In this work, we demonstrate how raw data are transformed into electron density values and validated with models and other instruments.

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Section: Experiments Configuration and Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

First Results of Mars Express—ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mutual Radio Occultation

Parrott,

Svedhem,

Witasse

et al. 2024

Radio Science

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“…Taking advantage from previous in situ missions (e.g., Rosetta/ Philae at the comet 67P (Bibring et al, 2007b;Biele & Ulamec, 2009), Hayabusa II/MASCOT (Ho et al, 2017) for asteroid sample return, Cassini/Huygens at Titan (Lebreton & Matson, 2003), ExoMars/ Schiaparelli (Esposito et al, 2018;Ball et al, 2022) and InSight (Banerdt et al, 2020) at Mars), various types of sensors could be proposed to perform measurements at different sites of the lander (e.g., on the lander's feet, within the drill, etc.,) and depths. The flexible structure of the EP allows for the integration of multiple sensors served by a common electronics and data management unit.…”

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ORIGO: A mission concept to challenge planetesimal formation theories

Marschall

Thomas²,

Ulamec³

et al. 2023

Front. Space Technol.

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Comets are generally considered among the most pristine objects in our Solar System. There have thus been significant efforts to understand these bodies. During the past decades, we have seen significant progress in our theoretical understanding of planetesimal/cometesimals (the precursors of comets) formation. Recent space missions—such as ESA’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko—have provided observations claimed by proponents of different comet formation theories to validate their scenarios. Yet, no single formation paradigm could be definitively proven. Given the importance of understanding how the first bodies in our Solar System formed, we propose a dedicated mission to address this issue. ORIGO will deliver a lander to the surface of a cometary nucleus where it will characterise the first five m of the subsurface. With remote sensing instruments and the deployment of payload into a borehole, we will be able to study the physico-chemical structure of ancient, unmodified material. The mission has been designed to fit into the ESA M-class mission budget.

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“…The Dust characterization, Risk assessment, and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface (DREAMS) [1] mission was part of the ExoMARS 2016 mission, which aimed to explore the Martian environment and gather data on meteorological conditions, hazards, and atmospheric electric phenomena. The Central Electronic Unit (CEU) subsystem was developed by TEMIS and CISAS to serve as the data handling platform [2] for the DREAMS payload and was installed inside the warm compartment of Entry and Descent Module (EDM) [3]. The CEU subsystem consisted of primary boards and expansion boards, which distributed functionalities among various modules.…”

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Development of a modular central electronic unit (CEU) for data handling and management in Martian atmosphere investigations

Marrocchi

2023

Materials Research Proceedings

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Abstract. This article describes the development of a highly modular Central Electronic Unit (CEU) for data handling and management in Martian atmosphere investigations as part of the DREAMS experiment in ExoMARS 2016 Mission. The CEU was developed by TEMIS and Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi e Attività Spaziali G. Colombo (CISAS) to handle, acquire and transmit medium and low-rate data from sensors dedicated to investigating the Martian atmosphere. The CEU subsystem was designed to communicate with an external host to receive commands and transfer telemetry, transform power from different sources, perform sensors' switch on and off, acquire scientific sensors and their housekeeping monitors, and provide CEU health status. The high modularity of the CEU architecture makes it easy to customize and interface with different types of equipment and instrumentation for various missions. The CEU subsystem is housed on Entry and Descent Module (EDM) and serves as the data handling platform of the DREAMS payload for the EXOMARS 2016 Mission. The CEU has proven to be an effective and flexible solution for data handling and management in Martian atmosphere investigations.

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The ExoMars Schiaparelli Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) System Design

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

First Results of Mars Express—ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mutual Radio Occultation

First Results of Mars Express—ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mutual Radio Occultation

ORIGO: A mission concept to challenge planetesimal formation theories

Development of a modular central electronic unit (CEU) for data handling and management in Martian atmosphere investigations

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