This study has been made to assess the needs, potential benefits and the applicability of early (circa year 2000) Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) technology in conducting NASA science missions. The study goals are: to obtain the performance characteristics of near term NEP technologies; to measure the performance potential of NEP for important OSSA missions; to compare NEP performance with that of conventional chemical propulsion; to identify key NEP system requirements; to clarify and depict the degree of importance NEP might have in advancing NASA space science goals; and to disseminate the results in a format useful to both NEP users and technology developers. This is a mission performance study and precludes investigations of multitudes of new mission operation and systems design issues attendant in a NEP flight.


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    Titel :

    Nuclear electric propulsion for future NASA space science missions


    Beteiligte:
    C. L. Yen (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993


    Format / Umfang :

    65 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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