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Ares v launch capability enables future space telescopes
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Stahl, H. Philip |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | NASA's Ares V cargo launch vehicle offers the potential to completely change the paradigm of future space science mission architectures. A major finding of the NASA Advanced Telescope and Observatory Capability Roadmap Study was that current launch vehicle mass and volume constraints severely limit future space science missions. And thus, that significant technology development is required to package increasingly larger collecting apertures into existing launch shrouds. The Ares V greatly relaxes these constraints. For example, while a Delta IV has the ability to launch approximate a 4.5 meter diameter payload with a mass of 13,000 kg to L2, the Ares V is projected to have the ability to launch an 8 to 12 meter diameter payload with a mass of 60,000 kg to L2 and 130,000 kg to Low Earth Orbit. This paper summarizes the Ares V payload launch capability and introduces how it might enable new classes of future space telescopes such as 6 to 8 meter class monolithic primary mirror observatories, 15 meter class segmented telescopes, 6 to 8 meter class x-ray telescopes or high-energy particle calorimeters. |
| File Size | 4414618 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070038373 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t06x4b558 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-08-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance Low Earth Orbits Shrouds Ares 5 Cargo Launch Vehicle Spaceborne Telescopes Launching Mirrors Payloads Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
