利用快速转移轨道上的太阳帆小卫星与先进科学载荷的在轨自主组装探索外太阳系
Exploring the Outer Solar System with Solar Sailing Smallsats on Fast-Transit Trajectories and In-Flight Autonomous Assembly of Advanced Science Payloads
AI总结：
本文提出利用太阳帆小卫星在快速转移轨道上实现在轨自主组装先进科学载荷，以低成本、高频次探索外太阳系，提升任务灵活性与科学探测能力。
摘要：
我们探讨将在轨自主组装作为构建先进行星科学载荷的手段，以探索太阳系外围区域。这些载荷由一组小卫星（< 20 kg）运送的模块化部件进行机器人组装。这些小卫星被置于快速太阳系转移轨道上，同时通过太阳帆推进加速至约 10 AU/yr 的速度。这一概念为行星科学界提供了低成本、频繁进入太阳系遥远区域的机会，配备了在轨组装的灵活、可重构仪器和系统。它允许更快的重访时间、快速补充和技术插入，以及更长的任务能力和更低的成本。它还通过使用模块化、冗余架构提高了小卫星的科学能力，并允许在整个太阳系中普及传感仪器。
英文摘要：
We discuss the in-flight autonomous assembly as the means to build advanced planetary science payloads to explore the outer regions of the solar system. These payloads are robotically constructed from modular parts delivered by a group of smallsats (< 20 kg) which are placed on fast solar system transfer trajectories while being accelerated by solar sail propulsion to velocities of ~10 AU/yr. This concept provides the planetary science community with inexpensive, frequent access to distant regions of the solar system with flexible, reconfigurable instruments and systems that are assembled in flight. It permits faster revisit times, rapid replenishment and technology insertions, longer mission capability with lower costs. It also increases the science capabilities of smallsats via the use of modular, redundant architectures and allows for proliferation of sensing instrumentation throughout the solar system.
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