Simple Mars Landing Formula

What would be a simplistic formula for landing a 350 tonne rocket travelling at 11km/s on Mars safely and importing it into Matlabs?

[James Tursa]

A really, really big airbag ...

Seriously, though, we need more details. What is the actual wording of the assignment?

[Riley McCullagh]

"Develop a conceptual model of a suitable rocket design...the duration of the trip to mars, slowing down on arrival to enter orbit and the landing of the payload."..." Develop a MATLAB program that you can use to explore the model of the rocket."..."Plot the outputs of the model in a suitable format. The plots produced will need to present changing acceleration and velocity "

[darova]

Can you make simple drawing in paint of what you expect to achieve?

[Riley McCullagh]

I'n imagining something like this for the amount of thrust needed for each stage of the rocket's descent .

[darova]

You can use plot, for loop and pause

[Damian Prashad]

@Riley - are you using state space equations to model the rocket?

I'm working on a similar project and need help with landing also.