The Triton Hopper is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project to design a mission to not merely land, but repeatedly fly across the surface of Triton, utilizing the volatile surface ices (primarily nitrogen) as propellant for a radioisotope-heated thermal rocket engine to launch across the surface and explore all the moon's varied terrain. An engineering design study of the vehicle and mission was done. With a calculated range of 20 km per hop, equator-to-pole mobility can be achieved over a primary mission duration of 2 years. Using Nuclear Electric Propulsion for the transfer vehicle, the same concept can be applied for a mission to the surface of Pluto.


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    Titel :

    Missions to Triton and Pluto using a Hopper Vehicle with In-Situ Refueling


    Beteiligte:
    Landis, Geoffrey A. (Autor:in) / Oleson, Steven R. (Autor:in) / Abel, Phillip (Autor:in) / Bur, Michael (Autor:in) / Colozza, Anthony (Autor:in) / Faller, Brent (Autor:in) / Fittje, James (Autor:in) / Gyekenyesi, John (Autor:in) / Hartwig, Jason (Autor:in) / Jones, Robert (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Astronautical Congress (IAC) Conference ; 2019 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    21.10.2019


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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