Mercuryplane—A Spacecraft for Regular Delivery of Astronauts onto the Mercury ()
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.
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Rubinraut, A. (2020) Mercuryplane—A Spacecraft for Regular Delivery of Astronauts onto the Mercury.
Advances in Aerospace Science and Technology,
5, 71-84. doi:
10.4236/aast.2020.53005.