Transcript Slide 1
Planning for Space
Exploration
Program Schedule
Discovery& New Frontiers Mission Schedules
Mission
12
NEAR
11ENC
Lunar
ProspectorExM
10
ENC Eros
EOM
EOM
Stardust
Launch
9
FB Earth
ENC Wild2
SR
EOM
Genesis
CDR
8
I&T
SR EOM
Launch
CONTOUR
Deep
Impact
7 Start
PDR
CDR
Start
6
LaunchEOM
I&T
PDR
CDR
ENC
MRR Launch Tempel 1 EOM
I&T
2011
OI Mercury
2011
MESSENGER
Start
5
SRR
PDR
CDR
ATLO
PSR
FB Earth
Launch
LRR
FB Venus FB VenusFB Mercury FB Mercury FB Mercury
Dawn
4
Start
3
Start
SRR
PDR
CDR
ATLO
PSR MRR Launch
EOM 2016
Kepler
SRR
PDR
CDR
ATLO PSR MRR
Launch
EOM2011
2011
ASPERA-3
Start PDR
2
New
Horizons
Delta IRF
Delta ESA
SRR
1
Launch OI Mars
PDR
CDR
EOM
Launch
FB Jupiter
Juno
0
Jan-99
1999Jan-002000Jan-012001Jan-022002Jan-032003Jan-042004Jan-052005Jan-062006Jan-072007Jan-082008Jan-092009
• COSTS
Technology Readiness Levels
TRL 1 Basic principles observed and reported
TRL 2 Technology concept and/or application formulated
TRL 3 Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic
proof-of-concept
TRL 4 Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment
TRL 5 Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment
TRL 6 System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant
environment (ground or space)
TRL 7 System prototype demonstration in a space environment
TRL 8 Actual system completed and “flight qualified” through test and
demonstration (ground or space)
TRL 9 Actual system “flight proven” through successful mission operations
TRL Example for In-Space Propulsion
Technology Program
NASA Implementation: (Deep Space One Ion Engine Example)
System Test, Launch
& Operations
System/Subsystem
Development
TRL 9
TRL 8
Aerocapture
Solar Sails
Solar Electric Propulsion
TRL 7
Technology
Demonstration
TRL 6
In-Space Propulsion Technologies
Technology
Development
TRL 5
Adv. Chemical
Tethers
TRL 4
Research to Prove
Feasibility
Basic Technology
Research
TRL 3
Low-TRL Technologies For the Future
TRL 2
TRL 1
External Pulsed Plasma
Fusion & Antimatter
Beamed Energy