There have been many proposed technologies and architectures to extend a human presence beyond the Moon. Solar electric propulsion (SEP) provides the capability to implement a wide variety of missions with relatively low injected mass to low-Earth orbit. Because of its broad applicability this technology can enable progressively ambitious steps towards Mars by incrementally increasing power. The benefits of SEP are addressed for cis-lunar excursions, near-Earth asteroid exploration, and missions to Phobos and Deimos, and compared to chemical propulsion and nuclear thermal technologies. In particular, SEP expands the range of near-Earth asteroids accessible with a constrained launch capability (IMLEO).


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    Titel :

    Human Exploration of Near-Earth Asteroids via Solar Electric Propulsion


    Beteiligte:
    Landau, Damon (Autor:in) / Strange, Nathan (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AAS Space Flight Mechanics ; 2011 ; New Orleans, LA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-02-14


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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