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Hummingbird: Versatile Interplanetary Mission Architecture

Abstract: This paper will present the Hummingbird concept and its strengths that enable versatile interplanetary mission architectures.  Interplanetary missions and system architectures for small satellites require a new type of thinking.  Specifically, taking...

Methods for Achieving Dramatic Reductions in Space Missions Cost

Abstract: The methods, processes, and technologies currently in use for major space programs are based on 50 years of lessons learned in the exploration of space. They draw on a large number of both successes and failures in space and represent our collective wisdom...

Design of a Mars Rapid Round Trip Mission

Abstract: The present work is divided in two parts. The first part analyzes the basic constraints of interplanetary round trip travel, and calculates an interplanetary train schedule (ITS) of missions to Mars in the general case of orbits with non-zero eccentricity...