In this What’s New in Aerospace? program, Ian Clark, principal investigator for the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will discuss the Mars Science Laboratory landing and describe the process and technologies used to land the Curiosity Rover on Mars. He will provide historical context for the development of those technologies and talk about the need for improvements as we move to larger and larger payloads, and then briefly introduce the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator technology and  discuss tests that are being conducted to mature the technologies.

This program is made possible through the generous support of Boeing.