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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 96 - Hilton Head - October 2005
Agenda Location	9 SUBCOMMITTEE B - MISSILES AND SPACE VEHICLES 9.1 Guidance and Navigation for a Mars Airplane
Title	Guidance and Navigation for a Mars Airplane
Presenter	Jeff Zinchuk
Affiliation	Draper Laboratory
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Abstract	A brief background on the NASA proposal to fly a rocket-powered autonomous airplane on Mars to conduct an Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey will be presented. The current Planetary Airplane Risk Reduction program to significantly reduce the technical and operational risk associated with the proposal will be discussed. The issues and proposed approach for providing the airplane’s navigation and guidance algorithms will be addressed. One of the more challenging elements is the ability to fly completely parallel ground tracks on the planet surface, necessary for the science instruments, in a poorly understood and dynamic wind environment.