Outer Solar System - Prospective Energy and Material Resources (gnv64)

Outer Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources
by Viorel Badescu and Kris Zacny
Springer | May 2018 | ISBN-10: 3319738445 | ePUB/True PDF | 943 Pages | 35.3/37.1 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Outer-Solar-System-Prospective-Resources/dp/3319738445

The Earth has limited resources while the resources in space are virtually unlimited. Further development of humanity will require going beyond our planet and exploring of extraterrestrial bodies and their resources.
This book investigates Outer Solar Systems and their prospective energy and material resources. It presents past missions and future technologies and solutions to old problems that could become reality in our life time. The book therefore is a great resource of condensed information for specialists interested in current and impending Outer Solar Systems related activities and a good starting point for space researchers, inventors, technologists and potential investors.

Contents

Part I Properties of Planetary Regolith

1 A Survey of Pluto’s Surface Composition . . . 3
2 Physical Properties of Icy Materials . . . 15

Part II Resource, Mining, and Subsurface Access

3 Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Resource Capturing, Storage, and Utilization . . . 33
4 Project VALKYRIE: Laser-Powered Cryobots and Other Methods for Penetrating Deep Ice on Ocean Worlds . . . 47
5 Europa Drum Sampler (EDuS) . . . 167
6 Drilling Mechanisms Using Piezoelectric Actuators Developed at Jet Propulsion Laboratory . . . 181
7 Ultrasonically-Assisted Penetration of Granular and Cemented Materials . . . 261

Part III Missions and Missison Concepts

8 Flight in the Outer Solar System and Interstellar Travel . . . . . . . . 291
9 Triton Hopper: Exploring Neptune’s Captured Kuiper Belt Object . . . 367
10 Sub-ice Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Architectures for Ocean World Exploration and Life Search . . . 429
11 Titan Submarine . . . 543
12 WindBots: A Concept for Persistent In Situ Science Explorers for Gas Giants . . . 609
13 Enceladus Vent Explorer Concept . . . 665
14 Prospect of Exploration and Exploitation of Kuiper Belt Object Resources in the Future . . . 719
15 Outer Solar System—Sample Return Mission by an Unmanned Interplanetary Spaceship UNIS. . . . 745

Part IV Enabling Technologies

16 Spacecraft Power System Considerations for the Far Reaches of the Solar System . . . 767
17 Hybrid Nuclear Spacecraft for the Outer Planets . . . 791
18 Exploration of the Outer Solar System: Missions and Their Power Systems . . . 823
19 Multi-rendezvous Solar Electric Propulsion Mission Opportunities to Jupiter Trojans. . . 837

Part V Business Cases for Resource Utilisation

20 Implausible, Yet Intriguing: Business in the Outer Solar System . . . 857
21 Sources of Energy in the Outer Solar System . . . 881
Index . . . 927