O. Bozic, J.M.A. Longo

The paper proposes a concept mission to Moon including a space-tug-vehicle in Moon orbit, a transfer surveillance / relay satellite into low lunar orbit, a Moon lander equipped with a rover for miscellaneous challenges and an Earth return spacecraft transporting Moon samples. To guaranty a low mission cost, trajectories of low impulse has been selected in combination of technologies like combined chemical-electrical propulsion; broad Ka-band / X-band / S-band transponder communication system and advanced solar arrays. The present analysis includes first global mass budgets for the lunar-space-tug-vehicle and its component modules and energy budgets for subsystems like the electric power supply and propellants. Also, here are defined the propulsion properties for the different modules.

DGLR Symposium "To Moon and Beyond", 2007, Bremen

Conference Paper

englisch

A4, 13 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 2007, 2007-02, To Moon and Beyond; S.1-13; 2007; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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2007