Rideshare Strategies for Small Mars Missions

被引：1

作者：

Woolley, Ryan ^{[1
]}

Barba, Nathan ^{[1
]}

Giersch, Lou ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

来源：

2021 IEEE AEROSPACE CONFERENCE (AEROCONF 2021) | 2021年

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D O I：

10.1109/AERO50100.2021.9438174

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

Frequent low-cost access to Mars can be enabled by taking advantage of the increasing number of rideshare-compatible launches. The cost to manifest a small spacecraft as a secondary can be a small fraction of the cost of a dedicated launch. However, not all rideshare opportunities are equally suitable for a mission to Mars. Much depends on the delivery orbit, mass available, launch date, and propulsion strategy. This paper outlines various mission starting points along with corresponding methods to deliver payloads to Mars from each option. These starting points include low-Earth Orbit (LEO), geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO), Lunar transfer orbit (LTO), and Earth escape.

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