The current Moon to Mars Architecture defines functional capabilities that are essential to achieving NASA’s specific exploration goals and objectives. The transportation system goals and objectives or functional capabilities do not prescribe a solution, leaving an open tradespace to be explored. NASA is working to identify power and propulsion technologies that enable feasible transportation options for crewed missions to Mars. During NASA’s Strategic Analysis Cycle 2021 (SAC21), nuclear enabled spacecraft concepts were analyzed for moderate duration 850-day Earth-Mars roundtrip mission2. During SAC22, the transportation tradespace was expanded to understand the feasibility of using different propulsion systems for crewed Mars missions using a moderate duration reference mission as a comparison point. This paper explores the mission analysis performed for a conceptual MW-class hybrid Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP)-chemical propulsion system (SEP-Chem) spacecraft optimized for an 850-day crewed Mars mission for the 2039 opportunity.


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    Title :

    Combined 1-MW Solar Electric and Chemical Propulsion for Crewed Mars Missions


    Contributors:
    L. M. Burke (author) / S. R. Oleson (author) / Z. C. Zoloty (author) / D. A. Smith (author) / M. N. Havens (author)

    Publication date :

    2023


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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