Potential astrophysics science missions enabled by NASA's planned Ares V | Zendy

H. Philip Stahl | Zendy; Harley A. Thronson | Zendy; Stephanie R. Langhoff | Zendy; Marc Postman | Zendy; D. F. Lester | Zendy; Charles F. Lillie | Zendy; Roger Brissenden | Zendy

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Potential astrophysics science missions enabled by NASA's planned Ares V

Author(s) -

H. Philip Stahl,

Harley A. Thronson,

Stephanie R. Langhoff,

Marc Postman,

D. F. Lester,

Charles F. Lillie,

Roger Brissenden

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.826748

Subject(s) - payload (computing) , aerospace engineering , planet , physics , launch vehicle , telescope , astrobiology , baseline (sea) , remote sensing , systems engineering , astronomy , computer science , engineering , geology , computer network , oceanography , network packet

NASA's planned Ares V cargo launch vehicle with its 10 m diameter fairing and ~60,000 kg payload mass to L2 offers the potential to launch entirely new classes of missions, such as 8-m monolithic aperture telescopes, 12- to 16-m aperture x-ray telescopes, 16- to 24-m segmented telescopes and highly capable outer planet missions. This paper summarizes the current Ares V baseline performance and reviews potential mission concepts enabled by these capabilities.

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