The feasibility of conducting a human Mars mission is considered, assuming no heavy lift launch vehicle is available and minimal crew flight times are required. Propulsion options are evaluated and extrapolated, and an architecture is defined. A low-thrust cargo vehicle deploys Mars surface cargo, and also establishes propellant depots in orbit around Earth and Mars. Subsequently, a low-thrust crew vehicle departs, carrying insufficient propellant for the complete mission but obtaining additional propellant from the depots. Although the architecture enables one-way crew flight times of approximately 100 days, and does not require heavy lift, its complexity calls into question the practicality of such a mission.


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    Titel :

    A Low-Thrust Transportation Architecture to Transfer Crews and Cargo between Earth and Mars Orbits


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    10th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments and Second NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration ; 2006 ; League City/Houston, Texas, United States


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2006-03-02




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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