Throughout the past five decades numerous studies have identified nuclear energy as an enhancing or enabling technology for human surface exploration missions. Nuclear energy sources were used to provide electricity on Apollo missions 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17, and on the Mars Viking landers. Nuclear energy sources were used to provide heat on the Pathfinder; Spirit, and Discovery rovers. Scenarios have been proposed that utilize -1 kWe radioisotope systems for early missions, followed by fission systems in the 10 - 30 kWe range when energy requirements increase. A fission energy source unit size of approximately 150 kWt has been proposed based on previous lunar and Mars base architecture studies. Such a unit could support both early and advanced bases through a building block approach.


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    Titel :

    Development, Integration and Utilization of Surface Nuclear Energy Sources for Exploration Missions


    Beteiligte:
    M. G. Houts (Autor:in) / G. R. Schmidt (Autor:in) / S. Bragg-Sitton (Autor:in) / R. Hickman (Autor:in) / A. Hissam (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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