Options for a mission to pluto and beyond

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1569-1589

  Vasile, Massimiliano ^a   Biesbroek, Robin ^a   Summerer, Leopold ^a   Galvez, Andres ^a   Kminek, Gerhard ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAUNCHING; MANEUVERABILITY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

MULTIPLE GRAVITY ASSIST MANEUVERS; NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION (NEP);

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 1542299785     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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