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Entry, descent and landing (EDL)
- Mars entry, descent and landing: understanding the full EDL chain
- Mars atmospheric entry: heat shield, entry corridor and guidance
- Mars parachutes and supersonic retropropulsion: where architecture changes
- Terrain-relative navigation, hazards and Mars landing-site selection
- Terminal descent, engine plumes and the Mars landing zone
- Human Mars lander: the EDL problem above 20 tonnes
Survive: ECLSS, health and resilience
- Mars habitat ECLSS: complete architecture of survival loops
- Mars habitat air: oxygen, CO₂, humidity and contaminants
- Mars water: 98% recovery, storage, quality and make-up
- Fire, depressurization and refuge: surviving habitat emergencies
- Mars radiation: shielding, dose and storm shelter
- Spacesuits, EVA and dust: working outside without contaminating the base
- Food, crops and medicine: biological and medical autonomy on Mars
- Psychology, fatigue and multiple failures: human resilience of a Mars base
Operations, industry, reliability and team
- Choosing a site and deploying a Mars base
- Mars surface mobility, robotics and logistics
- Mars ISRU industry, construction and local manufacturing
- Reliability, redundancy and common causes in a Mars base
- Durability, tightness, electronics and FDIR on Mars
- Mars maintenance, spares, qualification and configuration
- Crew operations, procedures and Earth-Mars communications
- Human factors, anomalies and training for a Mars team