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The Mars Hopper: a radioisotope powered, impulse driven, long-range, long-lived mobile platform for exploration of Mars

Description: Planetary exploration mission requirements are becoming more demanding. Due to the increasing cost, the missions that provide mobile platforms that can acquire data at multiple locations are becoming more attractive. Wheeled vehicles such as the MER rovers have proven extremely capable but have very limited range and cannot traverse rugged terrain. Flying vehicles such as balloons and airplanes have been proposed but are problematic due to the very thin atmospheric pressure and the strong, dust… more
Date: February 1, 2011
Creator: Howe, Steven D.; O'Brien, Robert C.; Taitano, William; Crawford, Doug; Jerred, Nathan; Cooley, Spencer et al.
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Feasibility of Ground Testing a Moon and Mars Surface Power Reactor in EBR-II

Description: Ground testing of a surface fission power system would be necessary to verify the design and validate reactor performance to support safe and sustained human exploration of the Moon and Mars. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has several facilities that could be adapted to support a ground test. This paper focuses on the feasibility of ground testing at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) facility and using other INL existing infrastructure to support such a test. This brief study co… more
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Morton, Sheryl; Baily, Carl; Hill, Tom & Werner, Jim
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