Enabling Decadal Survey Science Goals for Primitive Bodies Using Radioisotope Electric Propulsion
Abstract
We show how Radioisotope-Electric Propulsion (REP) spacecraft could orbit one or more Trojan asteroids with reasonable trip times and payloads, enabling many of the Decadal Survey primitive bodies' science goals, within a New Frontiers-scale budget.
- Publication:
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37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006LPI....37.1922P