Return of samples from Mars has been a goal of NASA's for decades. The current Mars Sample Return mission concepts have a multiple launch rocket from the earth, where one mission delivers a caching rover to collect and package the Martian soil samples. Another rocket sends the Mars Ascent Vehicle that takes those samples to orbit. Another rocket sends an orbiter, that also meets up with the samples in orbit, and brings them back to earth. Our tasks have been focused on the Mars Ascent Vehicle. To leave the Martian surface, it requires a two burn trajectory, one to get off the planet and another to circularize the orbit. Recent studies have led to the investigation of a hybrid rocket solution. That technology has been under development for several years. This paper will discuss some of the work going on at MSFC to understand how to process the fuel, some test firings done to characterize some design features and some planning done to scope out what it would take to qualify a hybrid rocket motor for this application.


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    Titel :

    Low Temperature Hybrid Mars Ascent Vehicle Concept Development and Planning at MSFC


    Beteiligte:
    Story, George (Autor:in) / Prince, Andrew (Autor:in) / Chaffin, Jessica (Autor:in) / Dankanich, John (Autor:in) / Kibbey, Tim (Autor:in) / Karp, Ashley (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference ; 2018 ; Cincinnati, OH, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    09.07.2018


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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