Performance alone is insufficient to assess the total impact of changing mission parameters on a space mission concept, architecture, or campaign; the benefit, cost, and risk must also be understood. This paper examines the impact to benefit, cost, and risk of changing the total mission duration of a human Mars orbital mission. The changes in the sizing of the crew habitat, including consumables and spares, was assessed as a function of duration, including trades of different life support strategies; this was used to assess the impact on transportation system requirements. The impact to benefit is minimal, while the impact on cost is dominated by the increases in transportation costs to achieve shorter total durations. The risk is expected to be reduced by decreasing total mission duration; however, large uncertainty exists around the magnitude of that reduction.


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    Title :

    The Impact of Mission Duration on a Mars Orbital Mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA SPACE 2017 ; 2017 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-09-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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