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| Title: | Human exploration of near-earth asteroids via solar electric propulsion |
| Authors: | Landau, Damon
Strange, Nathan |
| Keywords: | Solar electric propulsion (SEP)
human space exploration
exploration technologies
exploration architectures |
| Issue Date: | 14-Feb-2011 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011. |
| Citation: | AAS Space Flight Mechanics, New Orleans, Louisiana February 13-17 2011 |
| Abstract: | There have been many proposed technologies and architectures to extend a hu-man presence beyond the Moon. Solar electric propulsion (SEP) provides the capability to implement a wide variety of missions with relatively low injected mass to low-Earth orbit. Because of its broad applicability this technology can enable progressively ambitious steps towards Mars by incrementally increasing power. The benefits of SEP are addressed for cis-lunar excursions, near-Earth asteroid exploration, and missions to Phobos and Deimos, and compared to chemical propulsion and nuclear thermal technologies. In particular, SEP expands the range of near-Earth asteroids accessible with a constrained launch capability (IMLEO). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/42029 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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