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Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System—Interim Report
Technologies enabling alternatives to Ares V
Aerocapture
Solar sails
Solar-electric propulsion
Nuclear-electric propulsion
Robotic assembly and servicing
Technologies enhancing Constellation capabilities
Human assembly and servicing
TABLE 2.2 Correlation of Technology Needs with the Vision Missions Analyzed by the Committee
NOTE: Basic enabling technologies are those technologies that exist in concept at present but whose development is needed for some of the missions. Technologies enabling alternatives to Ares are those whose availability would provide options for the missions currently conceived as being executed without requiring an Ares V. Human assembly and servicing would enhance the capabilities of these missions. Some of the missions, like the Advanced Compton Telescope, would not directly benefit from these technology developments. DSN, Deep Space Network; LUVO, Large UV/Optical Telescope; MUST, Modern Universe Space Telescope; NEP, nuclear-electric propulsion; SAFIR, Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory.
