EXPLORE: TECHNOLOGY AND PROCESS DEMONSTRATION FOR ORBITAL REFUELLING ON A SOUNDING ROCKET

ABSTRACT Space exploration missions, in particular human and large cargo flights, require considerable transportation efforts to future destinations such as Moon and Mars. One option to achieve this payload and crew capabilities is by refueling of orbital transportation stages. The "EXPeriment...

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Main Authors: Christine Hill, Juergen Schlutz, Andreas Fink, Johannes Weppler, Robert Schelling, Emil Nathanson, Daniel Stoerk, Thorben Heinrichs
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Kiruna
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1086.5364
http://spaceflight.esa.int/pac-symposium_archives/files/papers/s4_3hill.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT Space exploration missions, in particular human and large cargo flights, require considerable transportation efforts to future destinations such as Moon and Mars. One option to achieve this payload and crew capabilities is by refueling of orbital transportation stages. The "EXPeriment for Liquid On-orbit REfueling" (EXPLORE) aims at informing the investigation of technologies and processes for these orbital refueling activities through a microgravity experiment. EXPLORE launched on the REXUS 9 sounding rocket in February 2011 at the spaceport Kiruna in Sweden. Further the paper will present the final experiment setup and evaluated results.

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