[X] My Assistant

[rlorenz]

Following from earlier thread's discussions on the late parachute deployment, there is a
pretty up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of Phoenix's EDL architecture from last
year's planetary probe workshop (this year's is in Atlanta next month - www.planetaryprobe.org)

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._2008012907.pdf

Interestingly, they were going to use rather more sophisticated lifting entry, but it
got descoped.

[dvandorn]

I would imagine that vehicle attitude information was recorded -- Phoenix sported an inertial measurement unit, which used an inertial platform to align itself to a stable matrix. With such a platform, it's very easy to record attitude information. The only thing I would not be surprised at is that the sampling rate of the attitude excursions may not be high enough to give a really good idea of the vehicle motions.

-the other Doug