LDSD Mars Landing Tech News

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Tune in to learn about NASA's second flight test of its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), slated for June 2015. NASA's LDSD project is designed to investigate and test breakthrough technologies for landing future robotic and human Mars missions, and safely returning large payloads to Earth. The test, performed over the Pacific Ocean, will simulate the supersonic entry and descent speeds at which the spacecraft would be traveling through the Martian atmosphere. Mission overview briefing participants include: U.S. Navy Capt. Bruce Hay, commanding officer, U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington Mark Adler, LDSD project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California Ian Clark, LDSD principal investigator at JPL For more information about LDSD, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ldsd. Join the conversation online with hashtag #LDSD.

Published 2015-06-02 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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