用于海王星的 L 级多用途观测台与科学平台
天体物理仪器与方法
2021-06-18 v1 地球与行星天体物理
摘要
超级重型运载火箭的再度兴起引发了人们对未来载人航天乃至未来殖民活动的浓厚兴趣。尽管在商业航天企业、老牌航天国家重燃的兴趣以及新加入者的推动下,该领域确实前景光明,但此类注意力很少留给这些发射器的以科学为中心的应用。Arcanum 任务是一项提议,利用这些运载工具将一台 L 级观测台送入环绕海王星的高偏心率轨道,配备广泛的一系列科学目标与仪器,致力于太阳系科学、行星科学、柯伊伯带天体及系外行星系统的研究。
引用
@article{arxiv.2106.09409,
title = {An L-class Multirole Observatory and Science Platform for Neptune},
author = {James McKevitt and Sophie Bulla and Tom Dixon and Franco Criscola and Jonathan Parkinson-Swift and Christina Bornberg and Jaspreet Singh and Kuren Patel and Aryan Laad and Ethan Forder and Louis Ayin-Walsh and Shayne Beegadhur and Paul Wedde and Bharath Simha Reddy Pappula and Thomas McDougall and Madalin Foghis and Jack Kent and James Morgan and Utkarsh Raj and Carina Heinreichsberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09409},
year = {2021}
}
备注
Global Space Exploration Conference 2021, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 14 - 18 June 2021. Published by the International Astronautical Federation with permission