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Single Launch Architecture for Potential Mars Sample Return Mission Using Electric Propulsion
Panel Selection:
Mars: Not Phobos and Deimos.
Institution:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paper describes how a single launch Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could potentially be enabled by using of Electric Propulsion with Hall Thrusters: a well established, off-the-shelf technology commonly used on communications satellites today.