A design study was performed to investigate packaging and deployment options for the potassium—Rankine, nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) spacecraft described by Rovang (1992). The subject spacecraft is the cargo portion of a split‐sprint (cargo/piloted) Mars mission, carrying 144 mt of cargo. Two parallel SP‐100 type reactors, potassium—Rankine power conversion assemblies, and argon ion thrusters are utilized in the selected architecture. A spacecraft design and deployment approach which uses two heavy lift launch vehicles (HLLV) to insert the entire spacecraft into low Earth orbit is presented.


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    Titel :

    Packaging and deployment of a 5.5 MWe potassium—Rankine nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft


    Beteiligte:
    Rovang, Richard D. (Autor:in) / Marko, Myroslaw (Autor:in) / El-Genk, Mohamed S. (Herausgeber:in) / Hoover, Mark D. (Herausgeber:in)

    Kongress:

    10th SymposiumùSpace Nuclear Power and Propulsion ; 1993 ; Albuquerque, NM, USA


    Erschienen in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 271 , 3 ; 1203-1208


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    20.01.1993


    Format / Umfang :

    6 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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