Study of payload capability of vehicle for Earth-to-Mars roundtrip mission; family of tangential constant-acceleration trajectories is used for Earth-escape and -capture phases, and variable thrust transfer trajectories for heliocentric transfer phase between Earth and Mars and return; results show that considerable payload is possible for total transfer times as low as 120-150 days when power plant having specific mass of 0.1 kg/kw is utilized.
Optimum Earth-to-Mars roundtrip trajectories utilizing low-thrust power-limited propulsion system
Am Astronautical Soc -- Advances Astronautical Sciences
1963
24 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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