{"id":796495,"date":"2025-06-05T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796495"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:51:04","slug":"shooting-for-a-mars-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796495","title":{"rendered":"Shooting for a Mars landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>A miniature\u00a0capsule\u00a0shoots off\u00a0at\u00a04000\u00a0km per hour,\u00a0mimicking\u00a0the\u00a0aerodynamics of a Mars\u00a0atmospheric entry\u00a0before crashing at supersonic speeds into a wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tiny replica of the Entry, Descent and Landing Module (EDLM) blasts off from a smooth bore gun faster than a speeding bullet. This video has been slowed down 60 times \u2013 the actual flight lasted just half a second.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0activity\u00a0is part of a series of free-flight\u00a0experiments with a scaled-down\u00a0version of the ExoMars landing module\u00a0\u2013\u00a0measuring\u00a0just\u00a08\u00a0cm\u00a0in\u00a0diameter\u00a0compared to the actual\u00a03.8-metre\u00a0spacecraft that will carry the\u00a0Rosalind Franklin rover.<\/p>\n<p>These tests\u00a0provide critical data on how the spacecraft will behave\u00a0during\u00a0its\u00a0entry into the\u00a0martian atmosphere.\u00a0Following a two-year\u00a0journey to the Red Planet,\u00a0the ExoMars descent module will\u00a0approach Mars\u00a0at\u00a0a speed of 21 000 km per hour, relying on heat\u00a0shields, parachutes and retro rockets to land safely.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0first set of\u00a0tests\u00a0took place\u00a0in March\u00a0at the\u00a0French-German\u00a0Research Institute\u00a0of\u00a0Saint-Louis(ISL),\u00a0a front-line research centre\u00a0with\u00a0facilities\u00a0for\u00a0investigating\u00a0the aerodynamics of vehicles like\u00a0reentry\u00a0capsules.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers equipped the mini ExoMars landing capsule with internal electronics to monitor its 400-metre\u00a0flight path.\u00a0The test models were\u00a0mounted in special sabots that detached from the capsules\u00a0when fired\u00a0from\u00a0the smooth powder gun.\u00a0Test speeds\u00a0ranged from 1800 to 4300 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The team used 20 models during the tests.\u00a0Each\u00a0model carried several sensors to\u00a0collect\u00a0flight data.\u00a0Teams\u00a0used shadowgraph imaging, magnetometers, accelerometers, and radar to analyse the capsule&#8217;s movement, trajectory and stability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shooting for a Mars landing\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7ejn4lvusc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/05\/Shooting_for_a_Mars_landing?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A miniature\u00a0capsule\u00a0shoots off\u00a0at\u00a04000\u00a0km per hour,\u00a0mimicking\u00a0the\u00a0aerodynamics of a Mars\u00a0atmospheric entry\u00a0before crashing at supersonic speeds into a wall.\u00a0 The tiny replica of the Entry, Descent and Landing Module (EDLM) blasts off from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}