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MSC Software’s Adams Plays Key Role in Curiosity’s Descent & Landing on Mars

MSC Software Corporation announced that its Adams multibody dynamics software played a crucial role in enabling the extraordinary descent and landing of the Curiosity Rover onto Mars on Sunday evening (August 5th). A team of engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) performed a series of critical computer simulations of the sky crane maneuver sequences and successfully and precisely placed the rover onto the Red Planet, in what many are calling an “immensetechnical achievement." - August 24, 2012