Launch of payloads from the surface of the Mars is a central element in any Sample Return program, and represents one of the most important objectives of NASA planetary science and Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) programs. Analysis of these samples in the sophisticated laboratories of Earth will give vastly more scientific as well as HEDS-relevant engineering and space-medicine knowledge of those bodies than can be performed from any feasible near-term miniaturized instruments. What is proposed here is a launch system with no moving parts of any kind: no gyroscope, no accelerometers, no control surfaces, and no thrust vector control.
A Miniature Mars Ascent Vehicle
Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration ; 2000 ; Houston, TX, US
2000-07-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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