Sentences with phrase «stable lunar orbit»

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Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

Perhaps the critical economic issue is what payload mass the Super Heavy Soyuz - 5 could put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit.

For an equivalent cargo payload mass to a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit a nuclear powered upper stage could completely eliminate the need, risk, pollution, and significant cost for the second of two kerolox or hydrolox powered upper stage Super Heavy Soyuz - 5 launches.

To build the International Moon Village and mine the Moon's resources, we need super efficient small, medium, large, and super large 4,100 (and higher) Isp electric rocket propulsion system powered reusable upper stages and space tugs for efficiently hauling cargo from LEO to a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit.

India could build or buy commercial electric propulsion systems built in France or Russia to significantly improve the cargo payload mass that could be put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit by its possible future Reusable Launch Vehicle or a «HLV» based on the Unified Launch Vehicle.