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Solar electric propulsion for future nasa missions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Mercer, Carolyn R. Oleson, Steven R. Landis, Geoffrey A. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Use of high-power solar arrays, at power levels ranging from approximately 500 KW to several megawatts, has been proposed for a solar-electric propulsion (SEP) demonstration mission, using a photovoltaic array to provide energy to a high-power xenon-fueled engine. One of the proposed applications of the high-power SEP technology is a mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and move it into lunar orbit for human exploration, the Asteroid Retrieval mission. The Solar Electric Propulsion project is dedicated to developing critical technologies to enable trips to further away destinations such as Mars or asteroids. NASA needs to reduce the cost of these ambitious exploration missions. High power and high efficiency SEP systems will require much less propellant to meet those requirements.|||||||||||||||||||| |
| File Size | 5882034 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20160004088 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2t48q01c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-06-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Photovoltaic Solar Electric Propulsion Solar Arrays Asteroid Capture Cost Reduction Xenon Nasa Space Programs Robotics Photovoltaic Cells Technology Assessment Manned Mars Missions Lunar Orbits Mission Planning Power Efficiency Asteroid Missions Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
