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Designed to enable human space exploration missions, including eventually landings on Mars, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) represents a unique launch capability with a wide range of utilization opportunities, from delivering habitation systems into the lunar vicinity to high-energy transits through the outer solar system. The vehicle will be able...
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The surface a solar system body that does not have an atmosphere can be directly bombarded and processed by the small positively charged particles ejected by the Sun, known as solar wind ions. At the Earth Moon, previous work discovered that 0.1%–1% of the solar wind protons hitting the lunar surface are backscattered in spac...
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... The spacecraft Initial Mass in Low Earth Orbit (IMLEO) has been constrained so that it should be delivered in a Low Earth Orbit by the SLS in a single launch. The evolved SLS Block-2 Cargo vehicle will have payload delivery capacity of more than 130mT in LEO with 1800 cubic meters of payload volume 10 . Thus, the maximum mass of the spacecraft have been constrained to a conservative value of 120mT. ...
