Mars Exploration with a Self-Refueling Hopper

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Jul 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000came.work..187l&link_type=abstract

Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 187

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Mars Exploration, Flight Tests, Hoppers, Launch Vehicles, Mars Atmosphere, Mars Missions, Mars Surface, Refueling, Propulsion

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A small reusable 'hopper' vehicle, the Mars In-situ Propellants Rocket (MIPR), is proposed to fly autonomously on Mars, using in-situ propellant production to manufacture rocket propellant directly out of the Martian atmosphere. The MIPR explores the Martian surface under rocket power and can repeatedly takeoff and land, carrying a suite of science instruments over a range of hundreds of meters per hop. The flight demonstration will accomplish a range of technology objectives important to both unmanned probes and to future human missions, including: (1) demonstration of a sub-orbital Mars launch vehicle, (2) demonstration of a pressure-fed small propulsion system for Mars ascent vehicles, (3) demonstration of a lightweight space engine, and (4) use for the first time of propellants manufactured in-situ on another planetary body. In addition to these technology objectives, the MIPR vehicle can carry a science payload that will advance our understanding of the surface and atmosphere of Mars.

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