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Solar sail mission applications and future advancement [PDF]
, 2010 Solar sailing has long been envisaged as an enabling technology. The promise of open-ended missions allows consideration of radically new trajectories and the delivery of spacecraft to previously unreachable or unsustainable observation outposts.
Macdonald, M., McInnes, C.R.
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Method for Rapid Interplanetary Trajectory Analysis using ΔV Maps with Flyby Options [PDF]
, 2012 This paper develops a convenient tool which is capable of calculating ballistic interplanetary trajectories with planetary flyby options to create exhaustive V contour plots for both direct trajectories without flybys and flyby trajectories in a single ...
de Weck, Olivier L. +2 more
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The Critical Path Roadmap Project: Biomedical Risk Reduction for Extended Spaceflight [PDF]
, 2000 Human exploration of space requires an understanding of the risks to which crews will be exposed during such missions, and the mitigation of those risks to the fullest extent practical.
Charles, John B., Leveton, Lauren B.
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Tethers in space: Birth and growth of a new avenue to space utilization [PDF]
The evolution of the ideas of tether applications in space are traced from its origin in the last century past a dormant period of sixty-five years to the mid-seventies.
Vontiesenhausen, G.
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Dust Grain Orbital Behavior Around Ceres
, 2003 Many asteroids show indications they have undergone impacts with meteoroid particles having radii between 0.01 m and 1 m. During such impacts, small dust grains will be ejected at the impact site.
Burns +18 more
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, 2010 Following on from ideas presented in a recent paper by Schneider et al. (2010) on "The Far Future of Exoplanet Direct Characterization", I argue that they have exaggerated the technical obstacles to performing such 'direct characterization' by means of ...
Bond A. +10 more
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The Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes and their missions to Jupiter are discussed along with the experiments and investigations which will be conducted onboard.
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Medical technology advances from space research [PDF]
Details of medical research and development programs, particularly an integrated medical laboratory, as derived from space technology are given. The program covers digital biotelemetry systems, automatic visual field mapping equipment, sponge electrode ...
Pool, S. L.
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The Madrid space station, operated under bilateral agreements between the governments of the United States and Spain, is described in both Spanish and English. The space station utilizes two tracking and data acquisition networks: the Deep Space Network
Fahnestock, R. J., Renzetti, N. A.
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Radiation environment and shielding for early manned Mars missions [PDF]
The problem of shielding a crew during early manned Mars missions is discussed. Requirements for shielding are presented in the context of current astronaut exposure limits, natural ionizing radiation sources, and shielding inherent in a particular Mars ...
Hall, Stephen B., Mccann, Michael E.
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