Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100849

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190100849

Funding Status
Declined

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Funded Activity Summary

Advanced thermal protection systems to enable Mars return missions. This project aims to advance the modelling of spacecraft heat shield performance to enable future returns to Earth from Mars, where vehicles will encounter heating loads an order of magnitude higher than Lunar returns. Survival depends on sacrificial heat shields which intentionally lose mass through ablation to form a protective layer. Currently, this process cannot be predicted accurately leading to compromised safety, excessive weight, and increased mission cost. The expected outcome is an ablation model for vehicle design which, for the first time, is based on experiments with a realistic aerodynamic flow. The significance and benefit of this project is its potential to make ambitious missions such as a Mars return feasible.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: Start date not available

End Date: End date not available

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $364,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics | Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Space Transport |

Other Keywords

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics | Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing | Space Transport

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