The scientific desire for global coverage of moons such as Jupiter's Galilean moons or Saturn's Titan has invariably led to the design of orbiter missions. These orbiter missions require a large amount of propellant needed to insert into orbit around such small bodies, and for a given launch vehicle, the additional propellant mass takes away from mass that could otherwise be used for scientific instrumentation on a multiple flyby-only mission. This paper will present methods--expanding upon techniques developed for the design of the Cassini prime and extended missions--to obtain near global moon coverage through multiple flybys. Furthermore we will show with proper instrument suite selection, a flyby-only mission can provide science return similar (and in some cases greater) to that of an orbiter mission.


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    Title :

    Global Moon Coverage via Hyperbolic Flybys


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    Conference:

    International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics ; 2012 ; Pasadena, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-10-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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