February 2025 workshop: Mars EDL white-paper briefing (international partners deck)¶
Document: iparch12-wp-mars-edl.pdf, 8 slides, 7,636,061 bytes, from
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/, fetched 2026-10-01T18:28:08Z (sources/manifest.csv). Title
slide: "Mars Room", "Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL)", "February 2025", Angela Krenn, Deputy Chief Architect
(Acting), Space Technology Mission Directorate. Text: sources/text/docs/2025-02-iparch12-wp-mars-edl.txt; images
in sources/raw/slides/2025-02-iparch12-wp-mars-edl/. Read from the images: the text-poor slide 5 (the title
slide, 1, was not viewed; its text gives title and presenter). No "Moon Base",
"CUI" or "Pre-Decisional" in the text (searched).
What it is. A briefing of the 2024 white paper Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Challenges for Human Missions in the "Mars Room" of the international partners' workshop, February 2025. It is the only EDL deck in the sources: the industry and academia set has none. It adds nothing to the paper but its presenter and room. Every text slide is the paper's text cut into bullets, down to "(Figure 6)" left in the body of slide 7, and slide 8 reprints the paper's first page and takeaways.
Slides¶
| Slide | Title, as printed | The paper's |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) | — |
| 2 | What is EDL? | "What is EDL?" and Figure 1 (Mars 2020) |
| 3 | EDL Phases | Entry, descent and landing paragraphs |
| 4 | EDL Challenges | Atmosphere, Surface Hazards, System Validation, System Scalability |
| 5 | Transition to Human-Class Mars EDL | Figure 5, the eight EDL systems, read from the image: the same values as the transcription on the paper's page, from Viking to the "Human-Scale Lander (Projected)" at 49–65 t entry mass and 26–36 t landed |
| 6 | Mars Mission Landing Ellipses | The introduction's "only 12 out of 19 attempted robotic landings have been successful" and the paragraph on landing error |
| 7 | EDL Research and Development | The research and development paragraphs |
| 8 | 2024 Architecture White Paper | The paper's first page and key takeaways |
Related pages¶
Mars EDL Challenges · Transportation Systems · #1103 Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing · Humans to Mars