{"531351":{"#nid":"531351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Can SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recent announcement by SpaceX heading to Mars in 2018 highlights work done by researchers in SSDL; The feasability of such a mission is critiqued in the following article, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/04\/spacex-has-already-demonstrated-its-key-mars-landing-tech-with-the-falcon-9\/\u0022\u003ECan SpaceX really land on Mars? Absolutely, says an engineer who would know.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following is an excerpt from the\u0026nbsp;Ars Technica article:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong those\u0026nbsp;eagerly\u0026nbsp;watching the flight tests was Bobby Braun, an aerospace engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology, who has led\u0026nbsp;a joint research effort with SpaceX and NASA to study supersonic retro-propulsion. \u0022I\u0026nbsp;have access to all of that data, and I\u2019ll tell you that it\u0027s worked like a charm every time,\u0022 he told Ars. \u0022The stability was manageable, and while there are still some issues, there are no showstoppers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe full article can be found \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/04\/spacex-has-already-demonstrated-its-key-mars-landing-tech-with-the-falcon-9\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Work performed in SSDL underscores feasibility of SRP for Martian entry"}],"uid":"28808","created_gmt":"2016-04-29 17:03:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:32","author":"Brandon Sforzo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"531341":{"id":"531341","type":"image","title":"SRP","body":null,"created":"1462204800","gmt_created":"2016-05-02 16:00:00","changed":"1475895312","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:12","alt":"SRP","file":{"fid":"89349","name":"srp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/srp_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/srp_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18586,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/srp_0.jpg?itok=rIULmSgb"}}},"media_ids":["531341"],"groups":[{"id":"282661","name":"Center for Space Technology and Research (CSTAR)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}