Spacecraft propulsion

Mars Exploration Entry, Descent, and Landing Challenges

Robert D. Braun, Robert M. Manning

Citations: 531 • 2007

NanoSail-D: A solar sail demonstration mission

Les Johnson, Mark Whorton, Andy Heaton, Robin Pinson, Greg Laue, Charles Adams

Citations: 336 • 2010

Space micropropulsion systems for Cubesats and small satellites: From proximate targets to furthermost frontiers

Igor Levchenko, Kateryna Bazaka, Yongjie Ding, Yevgeny Raitses, Stéphane Mazouffre, Torsten Henning, Peter J. Klar, Shunjiro Shinohara, J. Schein, Laurent Garrigues, Minkwan Kim, Dan Lev, F. Taccogna, Rod Boswell, Christine Charles, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Y. R. Shen, Carsten Scharlemann, Michael Keidar, Shuyan Xu

Citations: 330 • 2018

Status of solar sail technology within NASA

Les Johnson, Roy Young, Edward Montgomery, Dean C. Alhorn

Citations: 128 • 2010

Metal-CO2 Propulsion for Mars Missions: Current Status and Opportunities

Evgeny Shafirovich, Arvind Varma

Citations: 93 • 2008

Active space debris removal by a hybrid propulsion module

Luigi T. DeLuca, F. Bernelli Zazzera, Filippo Maggi, P. Tadini, Carmen Pardini, Luciano Anselmo, Michele Grassi, Daniele Pavarin, Alessandro Francesconi, Francesco Branz, Sergio Chiesa, Nicole Viola, C. Bonnal, V. I. Trushlyakov, И. В. Белоконов

Citations: 75 • 2013

Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators for Use On Future Robotic Missions to Mars

Ian G. Clark, Allison Hutchings, Christopher L. Tanner, Robert D. Braun

Citations: 69 • 2009

Mars Science Helicopter Conceptual Design

Shannah Withrow, Wayne Johnson, Larry A. Young, Witold J. F. Koning, Winnie Kuang, Carlos Malpica, J. Balaram, Theodore Tzanetos

Citations: 66 • 2020

Recent advances in nuclear powered electric propulsion for space exploration

R. Joseph Cassady, Robert Frisbee, James H. Gilland, Michael G. Houts, Michael R. LaPointe, Colleen M. Maresse-Reading, Steven R. Oleson, James E. Polk, Derrek Russell, Anita Sengupta

Citations: 60 • 2007

Rapid Mars Transits With Exhaust- Modulated Plasma Propulsion

Franklin Chang-Díaz, Ellen Braden, I. L. Johnson, Michael M. Hsu, Tien Fang Yang

Citations: 43 • 1995

Deep space optical communications

Daniel J. Hoppe, Abhijit Biswas, Meera Srinivasan, Sabino Piazzolla

Citations: 42 • 2018

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Autonomous Helicopter Testbed: A platform for planetary exploration technology research and development

James F. Montgomery, Andrew Johnson, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Larry Matthies

Citations: 38 • 2006

Recent advances in solar sail propulsion systems at NASA

Les Johnson, Roy Young, Edward Montgomery

Citations: 35 • 2007

Evaluation of propulsion options for interstellar missions

Robert Frisbee, Stephanie Leifer

Citations: 33 • 1998

Deep Space Propulsion

K. F. Long

Citations: 32 • 2011

Experimental research on low-cost cold gas propulsion for a space robot platform

Jan Kindracki, Karolina Tur, Przemysław Paszkiewicz, J. Mężyk, Łukasz Boruc, P. Wolański

Citations: 32 • 2016

Radioisotope electric propulsion of sciencecraft to the outer solar system and near-interstellar space

R. Noble

Citations: 28 • 1999

Review of biomimetic flexible flapping foil propulsion systems on different planetary bodies

Naga Praveen Babu Mannam, Md. Mahbub Alam, P. Krishnankutty

Citations: 25 • 2020

VASIMR Performance Measurements at Powers Exceeding 50 kW and Lunar Robotic Mission Applications

Jared Squire, Franklin Chang-Díaz, Tim Glover, Mark D. Carter, Leonard Cassady, V. T. Jacobson, Greg McCaskill, Chris Olsen, Edgar A. Bering, Michael Brukardt, Ben Longmier

Citations: 21 • 2008

Combining Solar Electric Propulsion and chemical propulsion for crewed missions to Mars

Tom Percy, Melissa L. McGuire, Tara Polsgrove

Citations: 20 • 2015