Chemring’s components proved essential for the successful touchdown of the latest NASA Rover Mars Mission.
At 14:55 CST on the 18 February 2021, the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover touched down on Jezero Crater, Mars.
Chemring Energetic Devices (CED) is proud to have supplied this historic mission and incredible feat of engineering with a number of critical components. NASA integrated 179 NASA Standard Initiators (NSI’s) and 54 other CED devices onto the Mars Perseverance Rover. The components were designed, built and tested by CED, in a culmination of years of dedication and teamwork.
The final decent from the Martian atmosphere to the surface is commonly referred to as the ‘seven minutes of terror’. Success hinges on a complex sequence of events unfolding without a hitch, from the inflation of a giant, supersonic parachute to the deployment of a jet-powered ‘sky crane’ and this is where the majority of CED’s components were integrated, all of which executed flawlessly during the Mission.
The Rover which weighs 2,260 lbs and is 10ft long will spend the next two years collecting and caching samples from the Mars ecosystem, seeking signs of past microbial life and studying Mars’ potential habitability.
CED has been the sole source provider for NSI’s and CED’s hardware has been on every single Mars Rover that NASA has sent to the Red Planet.
All our wishes go to the Mars Perseverance Rover Mission for another successful mission.