Clik here to view.
Green Dragon; A commercial Uranus atmospheric probe delivery system; NASA...
24_Uranus_Orbiter_and_Probe According to the above paper ,”The probe will enter using aerodynamic braking to slow from 22 km/s at entry interface” In our case we propose to slow the entire two Dragon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dual Capsule planetary missions( Red Dragon 1.5)
Dual Capsule planetary missions ( Red Dragon 1.5) One Dragon trunk two Dragon capsules docked together the leading capsules heat shield provides aerobraking RED DRAGON-MSL HYBRID...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Enhancing Blue Origins Biconic capsule cross range capability with inflatable...
Enhancing Blue Origins Biconic capsule cross range capability with inflatable deployable delta wings and applicability to other flight systems This concept might also enable SpaceX and Boeing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Small Fission reactor radiator waste heat as a buoyancy source for a very...
Small fission reactor radiator heats balloon probe atmosphere with the radiator waste heat and provides electricity to probe science mission.This augments day/night solar incident energy that informs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mass produced science probes, NASA as anchor tenant for a data sells business...
Hypothesis; each component manufacturer masters the art of mass producing one of its products and contributes them to a commonly owned corporation that assembles the mass produced spacecraft,the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GTO Spent upper stage as science probe and deployer 2.5
Con Ops Spent stage in GTO or in super synchronous orbit after payload deployment equipped with; wrap around solar array station keeping thrusters(also Ion powered) Argon/Xenon ullage gas to pressurize...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In space noble gas inflatable structures
In space Noble gas inflatable structures or Xenon Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator ( X-HAID) Or ( HAID-Xe2) SEP propellants kept at cryogenic temps at fuel depots transfer fuel to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SLS EUS Lunar Impactor with CubeSat observers and impactors
Use The SLS EUS stage as a lunar impacter as in the LCROSS mission After payload separation EUS performs Lunar South Pole targeted burn. Safe the stage and deploy Cubesats.Cubesats fly a LCROSS science...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Spider” 8 University IR rideshare telescopes mounted on the ACES or SLS...
“The Spider” 8 University IR rideshare telescopes mounted on the ACES or SLS forward Dome This idea I have blogged about before but it was a part of the Cryogenic Neon expansion ratio battery series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ice Giant SEP docked with spacecraft and Dual flow RTG-REP/SEP power
We last blogged about a common SEP & spacecraft docking mechanisms that allow for power to flow both ways between SEP stage and spacecraft RTG power sources.(SEP/REP hybrid)We suggested that this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ULA ACES ESPA cost engineering and business model & Terrestrial & Cislunar...
The OPAG Ice Giant study group has 13 science instruments and avionics/comnav cost engineered at $700 million this comes out to $54 million per instrument.Our business model would be to divide up this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ULA ACES & ESPA ring outer planet probe 2.0
Takeaways from past ULA ACES ESPA ring outer planets science missions posts (A) there is no docked spacecraft, the ACES is the science probe. (B)The NASA launch services contract pays for a portion of...
View ArticleULA ACES or a large LCH4 stage for Pluto and Ice Giant orbital missions
We examine the OPAG technology papers presented at the February 2018 meeting in Virginia Up first is Elliot Pluto on entering Pluto orbit with a 400 Kg dry mass payload and killing 10 Km/s after a...
View ArticleVenus Gateway space station and Observation platform
We propose that the PPE SEP stage of the proposed Lunar Gateway be used to transport and provide power to a Venus Radar imaging mission. We want to also demonstrate a COTS commercial procurement for...
View Article
