NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) is ready for transition-to-flight. The thruster has completed all qualification-level environmental testing, and has demonstrated a xenon propellant throughput, total impulse, and total operating hours greatly in excess of anticipated planetary science mission requirements, and exceeding that achieved by any other thruster technology in the history of electric propulsion. NEXT is the next generation system, a natural progression in technology from that implemented successfully on the Deep-Space one and Dawn missions, developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The first implementation of NEXT will be on NASA 's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impact technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. The DART mission is in Phase C, led by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The DART spacecraft will utilize the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster solar electric propulsion system as its primary in-space propulsion system. By utilizing NEXT, DART is able to gain significant flexibility to the mission timeline and launch window, as well as decrease in launch vehicle cost. This presentation will review NASA's investment strategy in electric propulsion _ in particular gridded ion thruster technology _ as it applies to solar system exploration. Results obtained from implementing this technology on Deep-Space one and Dawn will be reviewed. Mission studies which highlight the impacts of the NEXT technology will be discussed, and near-term proposed and scheduled missions including DART and CAESAR (Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return) will be reviewed.


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    Titel :

    Ion Propulsion for Solar System Exploration


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019


    Format / Umfang :

    39 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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