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Mars sample return: mars ascent vehicle mission and technology requirements
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Huynh, Loc C. Hawke, Veronica M. Jiang, Xun J. Bowles, Jeffrey V. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | A Mars Sample Return mission is the highest priority science mission for the next decade recommended by the recent Decadal Survey of Planetary Science, the key community input process that guides NASAs science missions. A feasibility study was conducted of a potentially simple and low cost approach to Mars Sample Return mission enabled by the use of developing commercial capabilities. Previous studies of MSR have shown that landing an all up sample return mission with a high mass capacity lander is a cost effective approach. The approach proposed is the use of an emerging commercially available capsule to land the launch vehicle system that would return samples to Earth. This paper describes the mission and technology requirements impact on the launch vehicle system design, referred to as the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). |
| File Size | 1318580 |
| Page Count | 58 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140011316 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t47q4083v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ascent Sample Return Missions Mars Sample Return Missions Fuel Tanks Engine Design Computational Fluid Dynamics Return To Earth Space Flight Spacecraft Launching Spacecraft Propulsion Nozzle Design Launch Vehicles Structural Weight Cost Effectiveness Systems Engineering Weight Reduction Mission Planning Hypergolic Rocket Propellants Spacecraft Design Mars Landing Ascent Trajectories Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
