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Mission / Mars

Mars Sample Return

NASA / ESA · 2020–now · also MSR, Sample Retrieval Lander, Earth Return Orbiter

Proposed NASA-ESA campaign to bring Perseverance's cached samples to Earth, with landers, a Mars ascent vehicle and an orbiter.

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Papers: 85
Named in: 34 in title · 72 in abstract · 51 in keywords

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Top techniques

Manipulation & Grasping19
Surface Mobility & Terramechanics14
Guidance, Dynamics & Control11
Perception & State Estimation11
Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking11
Design, Mechanisms & Hardware10

Top venues

IEEE Aerospace18
AIAA SPACE / ASCEND5
Aerospace Mechanisms3
IAC3
Acta Astronautica2
AIAA SciTech2

Also mentioned

Perseverance (Mars 2020)28
Spirit & Opportunity (MER)7
Curiosity (MSL)6
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter5
Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars)5
Artemis2

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Preprint (arXiv only)15Any workshop0

Space robotics & aerospace

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2 papers naming Mars Sample Return

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Preliminary Design of Robotic Control Software for Mars Sample Return - Capture, Containment, and Return System

Jacob T Cassady, Ashok K Prajapati, Elizabeth J Geist, Bradley C Tse +4 moreAIAA SciTech 2025Jan 6, 2025

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS ISRU & CONSTRUCTION Mars Sample Return Perseverance

Jan 6, 2025

Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstrator

J. (Bob) Balaram, Timothy Canham, Courtney Duncan, Matt Golombek +6 moreAIAA SciTech 2018Jan 8, 2018

Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Perseverance Curiosity Mars Sample Return

Jan 8, 2018