Paper Category: Mission enabler
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ESA’s Lightship Propulsive Tug; an Enabler for Small, Low -Cost Mars Missions
The Exploration, Preparation, Research and Technology (ExPeRT) Mars team within the Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) directorate in the European Space Agency (ESA) is currently performing industrial studies on the LightShip Propulsive Tug mission concept and has recently reached the end of Phase A. The LightShip Propulsive Tug concept is designed to deliver a single…