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Development of a Marslander with crushable shock absorber by virtual and experimental testing

Reinhardt, B.; Schröder, Silvio; Brauner, C. +2 more

Since the beginning of space exploration, probes have been sent to other planets or moons with the associated challenge of landing on these bodies. For a soft landing several damping methods like landing legs or airbags have been used. A new and potentially less complex and lighter way to reduce the shock loads at touchdown is the use of a crushab…