Development of architectures for human exploration missions has been pursued in the international aerospace community for a long time. This paper attempts a different approach and way of looking at architectures. Most of the emphasis is on lunar architectures with a brief look at Mars. The first step is to set forth overarching gods in order to understand origins of requirements. Then, principles and guidelines are developed for architecture formulation. It is argued that safety and cost are the primary factors. Alternative mission profiles are examined for adherence to the principles, and specific architectures formulated according to the guidelines. The guidelines themselves indicate preferred evolution paths from lunar to Mars architectures. Results of example calculations are given to illustrate the process, and an evolution path is recommended. Safety and cost criteria tend to conflict, but it is shown that cost-efficient architectures can be enhanced for good safety ratings at modest cost.


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    Title :

    Architecture Synthesis and Reduced-Cost Architectures for Human Exploration Missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Space 2004 ; 2004 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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