Abstract
The project of “Mercuryplane”—a spacecraft for regular delivery of astronauts to the planet Mercury is considered. In the first stage of the flight, with the help of a carrier rocket, equipped with a chemical rocket engine, astronauts are delivered to the international space station ISS. A design consisting of an interorbital module and a takeoff-landing capsule has been developed to deliver astronauts from Earth’s orbit into Mercury’s orbit. The interorbital module is an electric rocket equipped with 8 superconductor magnetoplasma electric engines MARS type. The electric power supply for the engines is provided by a collapsible solar panel made of gallium arsenide. The design of the takeoff-landing capsule has been developed for landing and take-off from the surface of Mercury. A device has been developed to refuel in Earth’s orbit the electric rocket engines with nitrogen, and chemical rocket engines with oxygen and hydrogen, which are in liquid state The developed spacecraft is able to regularly deliver three astronauts from Earth orbit to the surface of Mercury within 35 days.
Highlights
The paper is devoted to the problem of solar system mastering by means of sequential carrying out the expeditions towards planets, satellites and large asteroids
The pilot-astronaut switches on electric rocket engines 5 and the Mercuryplane begins the movement from Earth orbit towards Mercury orbit
1) Interorbital module 2) Solar panel made of arsenide gallium 3) Telescopic system of the solar panel unfolding 4) Front end disk 5) Electrorocket engine 6) Rear end disk 7) Nasal docking unit 8) Support beam of solar panel 9) Takeoff-landing capsule 10) Chemical rocket engine of takeoff-landing capsule 11) Nasal docking unit of takeoff-landing capsule 12) Side docking unit of takeoff-landing capsule 13) Cryogenic tank with working substance—liquid nitrogen The design solution of the Mercuryplane is based on the usage of the developed by the author rocket, ER-7, the detailed description of which was first published in [7]
Summary
The paper is devoted to the problem of solar system mastering by means of sequential carrying out the expeditions towards planets, satellites and large asteroids. This way of actions was outlined as far back as at the twentieth century end when have appeared numerous projects of flights towards Mars planet [1]
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