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| Title: | Deployable mini-payload missions enabled by small Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs) |
| Authors: | Abelson, Robert D.
Satter, Celeste M. |
| Keywords: | deployables
mini payloads
missions
radioisotope power system (RPS),
rovers
aerobot
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)
radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) |
| Issue Date: | 13-Feb-2005 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005. |
| Citation: | Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-17, 2005. |
| Abstract: | Deployable mini-payloads are envisioned as small, simple, standalone instruments that could be deployed from a mother vehicle such as a rover or the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter to key points of interest within the solar system. Used in conjunction with a small radioisotope power system (RPS), these payloads could potentially be used for long-duration science missions or as positional beacons for rovers or other spacecraft. The RPS power source would be suitable for deployable mini-payload missions that would take place anywhere there is limited, intermittent, or no solar insolation. This paper introduces two such concepts: (1) a seismic monitoring station deployed by a rover or aerobot, and (2) a passive fields and particles station delivered by a mother spacecraft to Jupiter. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/41031 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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