NASA is currently developing the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) that would have the capability to retrieve a boulder from a Near Earth Asteroid and place it in Lunar orbit where astronauts in an Orion spacecraft would rendezvous with the ARRM vehicle and explore the boulder. This mission is conceived as a capabilities demonstration mission that would path-find high power Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) and Earth-independent human spaceflight operations for Mars missions in the 2030s, as part of NASA's Journey to Mars initiative. The high-power, light-weight solar arrays and high-power, magnetically-shielded hall thrusters being developed for ARRM will dramatically increase NASA's in-space transportation capability. These two technologies could propel affordable human missions to asteroids, Martian moons, and asteroids. In addition, these technologies could be used to enhance human access to cis-lunar space and the Lunar surface. This paper will provide an overview of ARRM and discuss how ARRM-developed technologies would feed forward to human deep space exploration missions.


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    Titel :

    High power solar electric propulsion and the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM)


    Beteiligte:
    Strange, Nathan (Autor:in) / Brophy, John (Autor:in) / Alibay, Farah (Autor:in) / McGuire, Melissa L. (Autor:in) / Muirhead, Brian (Autor:in) / Hack, Kurt J. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017-03-01


    Format / Umfang :

    2603339 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch