The mission and activity planning strategy for the MARS2013 mission
- Author(s)
- Aline Dinkelaker, Sebastian Hettrich, Elena Sorina Lupu, Leila Ghasemzadeh, Agnieszka Sekula, Ali Alizadeh, Norbert Frischauf, Izabela Golȩbiowska, Gemot Groemer, Natalie Jones, Tilo Kauerhoff, Anna Losiak, Jane MacArthur, Linda Moser, Isabella Pfeil, Christoph Ragonig, Barbara Ramirez, Quentin Scornet, Nina Sejkora, Alexander Soucek
- Abstract
In February 2013, the MARS2013 Mission was conducted by the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh. MARS2013 was an integrated Mars analogue field simulation during which a small field crew conducted various experiments in the Moroccan desert directed by a Mission Support Centre in Austria. It served as a platform to test a planning strategy that was developed to cope with the characteristics of the mission, such as the duration of 28 days, about 20 experiments, each with its own scientific operational constraints and a 10 minutes time delay in the communication in order to simulate the long distance between Mars and Earth. On future Mars missions, time and resources will be even more limited. In order to ensure the maximum scientific research within the operational limits and experimental constraints, detailed and well-thought-through Mission and Activity Planning is of significant importance. Developing a method for how to properly plan all the necessary and desired activities in advance and how to react to inevitable changes due to contingencies and complications is a necessity. Copyright
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Lithospheric Research
- External organisation(s)
- Austrian Space Forum, Berlin Office, Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Politehnica University of Bucharest, University of Applied Science and Technology, Österreichisches Weltraum Forum (ÖWF), SpaceTec Capital Partners GmbH, University of Warsaw, National Defence - Defense nationale, Space Generation Advisory Council, Université catholique de Louvain, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 4698-4702
- No. of pages
- 5
- Publication date
- 2013
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103038 Space exploration
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Space and Planetary Science, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/9d13cb76-f879-4754-8222-80c624adb0c4