{"id":21881,"date":"2023-09-28T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mars-sample-returns-ascent-vehicle-undergoes-wind-tunnel-testing\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T20:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:14:33","slug":"mars-sample-returns-ascent-vehicle-undergoes-wind-tunnel-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mars-sample-returns-ascent-vehicle-undergoes-wind-tunnel-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Sample Return\u2019s ascent vehicle undergoes wind tunnel testing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MAV conducts tests in historic NASA wind tunnel<\/h2>\n

The Mas Ascent Vehicle for NASA\u2019s Mars Sample Return mission underwent wind tunnel testing as a rather special, but small, wind tunnel recently. In a blog post by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the agency detailed a small model of the proposed MAV rocket was placed into a wind tunnel that has been in use since the start of the space program.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center\u2019s Aerodynamic Research Facility offers a small, 24 inches long by 14 inches wide and high, wind tunnel. The tunnel itself is a piece of spaceflight history as it has severed NASA for testing scale models of its spacecraft starting with the Redstone rocket. The wind tunnel has also tested the Saturn, Space Shuttle, and SLS models.<\/p>\n

Image: NASA<\/p>\n

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The scale model of MSR\u2019s MAV being installed at Marshall\u2019s wind tunnel. Image: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being built by Lockheed Martin, the MAV will be a small, lightweight rocket that will launch samples recovered by NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover back into Mars orbit. This rocket will be the first vehicle to launch from another planet but will follow Ingenuity which was the first vehicle to take flight on another planet. While Marshall\u2019s wind tunnel is small, it can produce up to Mach 5 speeds to simulate flight through atmosphere.<\/p>\n