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A full scale atmospheric flight experimental research environment for the Mars helicopter

2019/09/16 by Juan-Pablo Afman, J. Pablo Afman, Eric Feron +6
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Planetary Science and Exploration #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #Robotics (cs.RO) #Spacecraft Design and Technology #cs.RO #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.09290

8 pages

arxiv created 2019/09/16 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/16 · arxiv updated 2019/10/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We propose to develop a full-accuracy flight test environment for the Mars helicopter and related Mars-atmospheric vehicles. The experiment would use reduced-g atmospheric flights with an aircraft that houses a properly sized vacuum chamber.

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