The paper will describe the key technical drivers on the Sylph mission concept to explore a plume at Europa as a secondary free-flyer as a part of the planned Europa Mission. Sylph is a radiation-hardened smallsat concept that would utilize terrain relative navigation to fly at low altitudes through a plume, if found, and relay the mass spectra data back through the flyby spacecraft during its 24-hour mission. The second topic to be discussed will be the mission design constraints of the Near Earth Asterioid (NEA) Scout concept. NEAScout is a 6U cubesat that would utilize an 86 sq. m solar sail as propulsion to execute a flyby with a near-Earth asteroid and help retire Strategic Knowledge Gaps for future human exploration. NEAScout would cruise for 24 months to reach and characterize one Near-Earth asteroid that is representative of Human Exploration targets and telemeter that data directly back to Earth at the end of its roughly 2.5 year mission.


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    Title :

    Environmental Design Implications for Deep Space SmallSats


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) ; 2016 ; Guadalajara, Mexico


    Publication date :

    2016-09-26


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Environmental Design Implications for Deep Space SmallSats

    Kahn, Peter / Imken, Travis / Elliott, John et al. | NTRS | 2016