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| Title: | Lunar fission surface power system design and implementation concept |
| Authors: | Elliott, John O.
Reh, Kim
MacPherson, Duncan |
| Keywords: | Prometheus Project
fission power
lunar base |
| Issue Date: | 12-Feb-2006 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006 |
| Citation: | Space Technology Applications International Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 12-16, 2006. |
| Abstract: | The request of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) in May of 2005, a team was assembled within the Prometheus Project to investigate lunar surface nuclear power architectures and provide design and implementation concept inputs to NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture 60-day Study (ESAS) team. System engineering tasks were undertaken to investigate the design and implementation of a Fission Surface Power System (FSPS) that could be launched as early as 2019 as part of a possible initial Lunar Base architecture. As a result of this activity, the Prometheus team evaluated a number of design and implementation concepts as well as a significant number of trades associated with lunar surface power, all culminating in a recommended approach. This paper presents the results of that study, including a recommended FSPS design and implementation concept. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/38984 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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