Title :
Rapid Mission Architecture trade study of Enceladus mission concepts
Author :
Adler, Mark ; Moeller, Robert C. ; Borden, Chester S. ; Smythe, William D. ; Shotwell, Robert F. ; Cole, Bjorn F. ; Spilker, Thomas R. ; Strange, Nathan J. ; Petropoulos, Anastassios E. ; Chattopadhyay, Debarati ; Ervin, Joan ; Deems, Elizabeth ; Tsou, Pe
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
At the request of the Satellites Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a Rapid Mission Architecture (RMA) study of possible missions to Saturn´s moon Enceladus was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in January and February of 2010. This was one of many studies commissioned by this NRC Decadal Survey. In this study, 15 Enceladus mission architectures were examined that spanned a broad range of potential science return and total estimated mission cost.
Keywords :
Saturn; aerospace instrumentation; planetary satellites; Enceladus mission concepts; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; NRC Decadal Survey; National Research Council; Planetary Science Decadal Survey; RMA study; Rapid Mission Architecture; Saturn moon; satellites panel; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Ocean temperature; Orbits; Payloads; Propulsion; Saturn;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7350-2
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2011.5747289
