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This report accompanies is a set of charts that will be presented at the 2024 LEARN Forum. This report is the result of an activity sponsored by Dr. Wanda Peters, Deputy Associate Administrator of Programs, who tasked Florence Tan and Carolyn Mercer with gathering insights from SmallSat/ Class D missions that could be extrapolated to enhance Class A-C missions.
Aerocapture is an orbital insertion technique which uses a single pass through a planetary atmosphere to dissipate enough orbital energy for planetary capture. It can deliver large orbit insertion ΔVs with minimum fuel, resulting in significant reductions in transit time and/or increases in science payload mass.
This presentation is a set of charts presented at the 2024 AIAA ASCEND conference. This report is the result of an activity sponsored by Dr. Wanda Peters, Deputy Associate Administrator of Programs, who tasked Florence Tan and Carolyn Mercer with gathering insights from SmallSat/ Class D missions that could be extrapolated to enhance Class A-C missions.