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

fYear

2011

fDate

5-12 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

13

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7350-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2011.5747289

Filename

5747289