The Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission is a candidate Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Mission whose main objectives are to develop and demonstrate a high-power solar electric propulsion capability for the Agency and return an asteroidal mass for rendezvous and characterization in a companion human-crewed mission. The ion propulsion system must be capable of operating over an 8-year time period and processing up to 10,000 kg of xenon propellant. This high-power solar electric propulsion capability, or an extensible derivative of it, has been identified as a critical part of an affordable, beyond-low-Earth-orbit, manned-exploration architecture. Under the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate the critical electric propulsion and solar array technologies are being developed. The ion propulsion system being co-developed by the NASA Glenn Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle is based on the NASA-developed 12.5 kW Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS0 thruster and power processing technologies. This paper presents the conceptual design for the ion propulsion system, the status of the NASA in-house thruster and power processing activity, and an update on flight hardware.


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    Title :

    Ion Propulsion System for the Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Mission


    Contributors:
    Herman D. A. (author) / Santiago W. (author) / Kamhawi H. (author) / Polk J. E. (author) / Snyder J. S. (author) / Hofer R. R. (author) / Parker J. M. (author)

    Publication date :

    2015


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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