The use of existing earth-orbiting satellite technology represents a potential way of fulfilling important planetary exploration goals at greatly reduced cost, at least within the region between Venus and the inner asteroid belt. The present paper reports three studies of options for such missions to near-earth asteroids, the moon and Mars. The asteroid mission projected would be that of a rendezvous with either Anteros or Eros for purposes of resource determination, using an adaptation of the Tiros-N weather satellite. Two parallel studies were done on geoscience orbiters intended to provide detailed composition mapping from low polar orbit of the moon and Mars based on the modification of the same spacecraft design: the FLTSATCOM spacecraft, and the Atmospheric Explorer/Dynamics Explorer (later changed to Tiros for combined moon-Mars missions). Studies have shown the major modifications required to involve the telecommunications, data handling, power, propulsion and attitude control subsystems, and have demonstrated concept feasibility.


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    Title :

    Low cost planetary science missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Sciences Meeting ; 1983 ; Reno, NV


    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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