We present a lean-minded, fast-transfer mission strategy and architecture concept for a first human mission to Mars that deliberately utilizes a current-technology-favored approach by means of introducing and quantitatively dening two pivotal parameters: 1) an end-to-end Mars mission duration of approximately one year, and 2) a deep space habitat of approximately 4050 metric tons. These parameters are identified and introduced by a 2012 deep space habitat study conducted at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) that focused on a subset of recognized high-engineering-risk factors that may otherwise inhibit or encumber remote space travel to destinations such as Mars or near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). Additional constraints in the study favoring current technology and a lean-minded (very short) surface stay on Mars are shown to offer such Mars mission opportunities in the 2030s, enabled by a combination of on-orbit staging, mission element pre-positioning, and unique round-trip trajectories identied by state-of-the-art astrodynamics algorithms.


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    Titel :

    A Proposal for A Lean, Fast Mars Round-Trip Mission Architecture: Using Current Technologies for A Human Mission to Mars In The 2030s


    Beteiligte:
    Bailey, Lora (Autor:in) / Folta, David (Autor:in) / Barbee, Brent (Autor:in) / Vaughn, Frank J. (Autor:in) / Campbell, Bruce (Autor:in) / Thronson, Harley A. (Autor:in) / Englander, Jacob A. (Autor:in) / Lin, Tzu Yu (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference and Exposition ; 2013 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-09-10


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch







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