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Mars Exploration Rover: thermal design is a system engineering activity

Tsuyuki, Glenn T.·Avila, Arturo·Awaya, Henry I.·Krylo, Robert·Novak, Keith·Phillips, Charles
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The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), were launched in June and July of 2003, repsectively and successfully landed on Mars in early and late January of 2004, repectively. The flight system architecture implemented many successful features of the Mars Pathfinder (MPF) system: A cruise stage that transported an entry vehicle that housed the Lander, which in turn, used airbags to cushion the Rover during the landing event.

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Tsuyuki, Glenn T., Avila, Arturo, Awaya, Henry I., Krylo, Robert, Novak, Keith, Phillips, Charles. 2003-07-01. Mars Exploration Rover: thermal design is a system engineering activity. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060043069

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