Planning and Design Method for Heavy Launch Vehicle Launch site for Manned Mars Exploration Mission

Abstract

The manned Mars exploration mission is an important application for the future use of heavy launch vehicle. With largger scale and more system, its launch site planning design and construction are difficult. Launch vehicle overall design, launch site planning design and test launch mode are considered as a whole of feedback iteration. For the huge system engineering of manned Mars exploration, the design of the launch site is mainly affected by the mission scale, launch vehicle overall design and test launch mode. Analysis of factors such as mission scale and window cycle, more than two heavy launch vehicle launch pads are needed for the manned Mars exploration mission. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the multi-pad construction. According to the preliminary genera parameters of heavy launch vehicle and the climate characteristics of Wenchang launch site, analysis the test launch mode that suitable for China’s heavy launch vehicle. And then, the horizontal planning and the vertical plannig method are suggestted for heavy launch vehicle launch site. Thereby achieving technically feasible, safe reliable and cost controllable purposes. Provid ideas and methods for China’s future large-scale space mission launch site planning.