This report represents a summary of the study conducted under NASA Innovative Concept study contract number 14-NIAC14B-0075. The report provides a summary of the results of all contracted tasks and provides a suggested roadmap for continued development. The effort was collaborated with the Finnish Metrological Institute on an unfunded basis and the results of that coordination are reported herein. The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) provides a flexible and enabling technology that can accelerate a spacecraft to velocities that allow travel times on the order of a decade for reaching the Heliopause; a feat that took the Voyager spacecraft(s) over 30 years to perform. The propulsion system concept being described is faster than any current propulsion system underdevelopment by NASA. The report describes the mission, the propulsion concept, and solar system trajectories. It also provides a comparison to the current state of the art in advanced propulsion concepts.


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    Titel :

    NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC): Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS), Final Report


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    27.04.2015


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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