Packaging and deployment of a 5.5 MWe potassium-Rankine nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft

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Jan 1993

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Proceedings of the tenth symposium on space nuclear and propulsion. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 271, pp. 1203-1208 (1993

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomical And Space-Research Instrumentation

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A design study was performed to investigate packaging and deployment options for the potassium-Rankine, nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) spacecraft described by Rovang (1992). The subject spacecraft is the cargo portion of a split-sprint (cargo/piloted) Mars mission, carrying 144 mt of cargo. Two parallel SP-100 type reactors, potassium-Rankine power conversion assemblies, and argon ion thrusters are utilized in the selected architecture. A spacecraft design and deployment approach which uses two heavy lift launch vehicles (HLLV) to insert the entire spacecraft into low Earth orbit is presented.

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