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Mars, phobos, and deimos sample return enabled by arrm alternative trade study spacecraft
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Qu, Min Naasz, Bo Merill, Raymond G. Vavrina, Matthew Englander, Jacob A. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | The Asteroid Robotic Redirect Mission (ARRM) has been the topic of many mission design studies since 2011. The reference ARRM spacecraft uses a powerful solar electric propulsion (SEP) system and a bag device to capture a small asteroid from an Earth-like orbit and redirect it to a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon. The ARRM Option B spacecraft uses the same propulsion system and multi-Degree of Freedom (DoF) manipulators device to retrieve a very large sample (thousands of kilograms) from a 100+ meter diameter farther-away Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). This study will demonstrate that the ARRM Option B spacecraft design can also be used to return samples from Mars and its moons - either by acquiring a large rock from the surface of Phobos or Deimos, and/or by rendezvousing with a sample-return spacecraft launched from the surface of Mars. |
| File Size | 822970 |
| Page Count | 22 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140016565 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6159ks3p |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2014-08-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Optimization Trajectory Design Low Thrust Retrograde Orbits Deimos Solar Electric Propulsion Manipulators Sample Return Missions Mars Surface Samples Asteroid Missions Spacecraft Design Phobos Robotics Earth Orbits Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
