Cryogenic propellants such as liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) can dramatically enhance NASAs ability to explore the solar system because of their superior specific impulse (Isp) capability. Although these cryogenic propellants can be challenging to manage and store, they allow significant mass advantages over traditional hypergolic propulsion systems and are therefore technically enabling for many planetary science missions. New cryogenic storage techniques such as subcooling and the use of advanced insulation and low thermal conductivity support structures will allow for the long term storage and use of cryogenic propellants for solar system exploration and hence allow NASA to deliver more payloads to targets of interest, launch on smaller and less expensive launch vehicles, or both. Employing cryogenic propellants will allow NASA to perform missions to planetary destinations that would not be possible with the use of traditional hypergolic propellants. These new cryogenic storage technologies were implemented in a design study for the Titan Orbiter Polar Surveyor (TOPS) mission, with LH2 and LOX as propellants, and the resulting spacecraft design was able to achieve a 43 launch mass reduction over a TOPS mission, that utilized a conventional hypergolic propulsion system with mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) propellants. This paper describes the cryogenic propellant storage design for the TOPS mission and demonstrates how these cryogenic propellants are stored passively for a decade-long Titan mission.


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    Titel :

    Long-Term Cryogenic Propellant Storage for the Titan Orbiter Polar Surveyor (TOPS) Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Mustafi, Shuvo (Autor:in) / Francis, John (Autor:in) / Li, Xiaoyi (Autor:in) / DeLee, Hudson (Autor:in) / Purves, Lloyd (Autor:in) / Willis, Dewey (Autor:in) / Nixon, Conor (Autor:in) / Mcguinness, Dan (Autor:in) / Riall, Sara (Autor:in) / Devine, Matt (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Space Cryogenics Workshop ; 2015 ; Phoenix, AZ, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-08-20


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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