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Suitability of reusability and in-situ propellant production for a Lunar transportation system

Dumont, Etienne und Goh, Weixiong und Delbourg, Matthieu und Lizy-Destrez, Stéphanie und Le Bihan, Bastien (2017) Suitability of reusability and in-situ propellant production for a Lunar transportation system. In: Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC. 68th International Astronautical Congress, 2017-09-25 - 2017-09-29, Adelaide, Australia.

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Kurzfassung

Sustainable continuous presence on the Moon is a long term goal of humankind. However, the few vehicles that were built until now for lunar missions were far from having the capability to achieve this goal. Their designs were mainly influenced by short term considerations and the available technological state of the art. Consequently relying on a classic expendable transportation system based on storable propellant will not allow going much further than where we arrived until today. A new transportation architecture is needed. In the frame of the ROBEX (Robotic Exploration under Extreme Conditions) project, new types of lunar architecture are under study. Modularity, reconfigurability and flexibility are playing a major role. The transportation system is of course a very important aspect of future Moon missions, as it can represent a very large share of the mass to be launched from Earth. Reducing the share of the lunar transportation system within the total mass launched from Earth is the best way to reduce the cost of Moon missions and therefore increase the overall programme sustainability. The preliminary design of a Moon transportation system based on reusable vehicles running on LOx/LH2 and benefiting from lunar in-situ propellant production is being performed. This transportation system is made out of two types of vehicle. The Reusable Lunar Resupply Vehicle (RLRV) is a lunar single stage to orbit vehicle able also to land on the Moon. The Reusable Trans- Lunar Vehicle (RTLV) is a space-tug able to transport payloads from LEO to a cis-lunar orbit and back. Several cislunar orbits are considered and their influence on the RLRV and RTLV designs is discussed. Possible vehicle cooperation, such as in-space cryogenic propellant transfer is also studied. For both vehicles, a structural preliminary sizing is performed. For the RLRV in particular, the landing dynamic has been analysed to refine the landing loads. Based on these results, the potential gain brought by reusability to the Lunar transportation system is demonstrated for different cis-lunar staging orbits and operational modes.

elib-URL des Eintrags:https://elib.dlr.de/114432/
Dokumentart:Konferenzbeitrag (Vortrag)
Zusätzliche Informationen:IAC-17- D2.3.1
Titel:Suitability of reusability and in-situ propellant production for a Lunar transportation system
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Dumont, Etienneetienne.dumont (at) dlr.dehttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4618-0572NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Goh, WeixiongDLR-SARTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Delbourg, MatthieuDLR-SARTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Lizy-Destrez, StéphanieISAE-SupaéroNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Le Bihan, BastienISAE-SupaéroNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:27 September 2017
Erschienen in:Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC
Referierte Publikation:Nein
Open Access:Ja
Gold Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Ja
In ISI Web of Science:Nein
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:Moon, Lunar mission, transportation system, ISPP, reusability, LOx/LH2, Moon vicinity, NRO, DRO, EML1, LLO, landing gear, in-space cryogenic propellant transfer
Veranstaltungstitel:68th International Astronautical Congress
Veranstaltungsort:Adelaide, Australia
Veranstaltungsart:internationale Konferenz
Veranstaltungsbeginn:25 September 2017
Veranstaltungsende:29 September 2017
Veranstalter :IAF
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Raumtransport
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R RP - Raumtransport
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - Systemanalyse Raumtransport (SART) [RP]
Standort: Bremen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme > Systemanalyse Raumtransport
Hinterlegt von: Dumont, Etienne
Hinterlegt am:28 Sep 2017 11:17
Letzte Änderung:24 Apr 2024 20:18

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