Previous investigations have extensively explored crew missions to and from Mars, with a prevailing approach termed the 'conjunction' class, necessitating an approximately 500-day stay at Mars for a cost-effective return. However, this configuration results in a mission duration exceeding 1000 days (roughly 3 years). In order to reduce crew health and surface operations risks, a shortened mission duration of 850 days is being explored by using a short ~30 day Mars surface stay and a ‘opposition’ class approach. A non-nuclear approach is possible by combining solar electric propulsion and a chemical stage. While past mission concepts for the conjunction missions also used solar electric propulsion they limited the SEP power to <700 kW. In order to achieve the 850 day round trip more SEP power is needed. A 1MW class SEP-Chem vehicle was found sufficient to perform the 850 day mission. The biggest challenge for the design will be the large, high power solar arrays, mainly from their deployment and stability. This work describes the design of the SEP-Chem vehicle, assembled in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) and employing super-heavy class and the Space Launch System (SLS) launchers.


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    Titel :

    A 1 MW Solar Electric and Chemical Propulsion Vehicle for Piloted Mars Opposition Class Missions


    Beteiligte:
    Steven Oleson (Autor:in) / Laura Burke (Autor:in) / Elizabeth Turnbull (Autor:in) / Brandon Klefman (Autor:in) / Hani Kamhawi (Autor:in) / Brent Faller (Autor:in) / Wesley Johnson (Autor:in) / Nicholas Lantz (Autor:in) / Bushara Dosa (Autor:in) / Christine Schmid (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    2023 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery) ; 2023 ; Las Vegas, NV, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch