| Event ID: | 11947 |
| Contact Name: | Monica Azema |
| Contact Email: | mazema@uccs.edu |
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| Event Web Site: | http://mae.uccs.edu/research/files/2016_10_07_Strange.pdf |
| Dates: | 7th October 2016 to 7th October 2016 |
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| Type: | Public |
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| Country: | United States |
| State/Province: | Colorado |
| City: | Colorado Springs |
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| Event Name: | Way to Mars:How Recent Advances in Electric Propulsion Could Take Human Exploration into Deep Space |
| Event Description: | Friday, October , 2016 3:15 PM Centennial Auditorium Refreshments at 3:00PM CENT 203 This seminar will discuss how new electric propulsion technologies being developed by NASA will enable human deep space missions to Mars, the Moon, and asteroids. NASA is currently developing the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) that would have the capability to retrieve up to a 20 t boulder from a Near Earth Asteroid and place it in Lunar orbit where astronauts in an Orion spacecraft would rendezvous with the ARRM vehicle and explore the boulder. This mission is conceived as a capabilities demonstration mission that will pathfind high power Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) and Earth-independent human spaceflight operations for Mars missions in the 2030s as part of NASA’s Journey to Mars initiative. The highpower, light-weight solar arrays and high-power, magneticallyshielded hall thrusters being developed for ARRM will dramatically increase NASA’s in-space transportation capability. These two technologies could “propel” affordable human missions to asteroids, Martian moons, and asteroids. In addition, these technologies could be used to enhance human access to cis-lunar space and the Lunar surface. |
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