Mars sample return: A direct and minimum-risk design

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 381-385

  Wercinski, P F ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; LIFT; ORBITAL TRANSFER; PLANETS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRAJECTORIES;

EARTH RETURN VEHICLE; INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY DESIGN; LAUNCH VEHICLE; MARS EXPLORATION; MARS SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS; MINIMUM RISK DESIGN; MISSION CONSTRAINTS; SPACECRAFT DESIGN; STORABLE LIQUID PROPULSION SYSTEMS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0030145170     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26771     Document Type: Article

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