Graham2001
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I was going through the NTRS documents on my hard drive and found this rather interesting looking 1970s spacecraft. These files are currently not on the NTRS (I'm assuming they were removed during the 'cry wolfe' incident.), so I've put them online via a box.net account (See link below) until they are restored.
The vehicle itself which was designed by TRW was conceived as a multi-use design capable of handling missions as far out as Jupiter orbit. The most detailed material in the report covers asteroid belt missions (With or without a targeted asteroid flyby.)
Planned launch vehicles were the Atlas-Centaur or the Titan IIIc (Though from reading between the lines I think that the most likely LV would have been the Titan IIIc for all missions).
Use of ion-engines should make for some interesting ship handling options, especially in the final of the mission options discussed which involved using the engines to alter the spacecraft trajectory relative to the ecliptic over successive solar orbits.
Study of a Solar Electric Multi-Mission Spacecraft (TRW 1970)
https://app.box.com/s/ch93bcikj6pj49nkfika1ody2msmmr4k
Later:
I've managed to locate a document dealing with the Out-of-Ecliptic mission, the documents I've linked to are included amongst the references. This could be useful for creating a scenario dealing with that mission.
Early application of solar-electric propulsion to a 1-astronomical-unit out-of-the-ecliptic mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700023744.pdf
And while I've not been able to locate a Jupiter specific document I have found one dealing with Solar Electric (Ion Drive) missions in the context of the 'Grand Tour' (Voyager) from which a mission for this spacecraft could be extrapolated.
Solar electric grand tour missions to the outer planets Final report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700027664.pdf
The vehicle itself which was designed by TRW was conceived as a multi-use design capable of handling missions as far out as Jupiter orbit. The most detailed material in the report covers asteroid belt missions (With or without a targeted asteroid flyby.)
Planned launch vehicles were the Atlas-Centaur or the Titan IIIc (Though from reading between the lines I think that the most likely LV would have been the Titan IIIc for all missions).
Use of ion-engines should make for some interesting ship handling options, especially in the final of the mission options discussed which involved using the engines to alter the spacecraft trajectory relative to the ecliptic over successive solar orbits.
Study of a Solar Electric Multi-Mission Spacecraft (TRW 1970)
https://app.box.com/s/ch93bcikj6pj49nkfika1ody2msmmr4k
Later:
I've managed to locate a document dealing with the Out-of-Ecliptic mission, the documents I've linked to are included amongst the references. This could be useful for creating a scenario dealing with that mission.
Early application of solar-electric propulsion to a 1-astronomical-unit out-of-the-ecliptic mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700023744.pdf
And while I've not been able to locate a Jupiter specific document I have found one dealing with Solar Electric (Ion Drive) missions in the context of the 'Grand Tour' (Voyager) from which a mission for this spacecraft could be extrapolated.
Solar electric grand tour missions to the outer planets Final report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700027664.pdf
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