To really appreciate the new graphic, though, you have to. I just stumbled over this NASA video showing the separation of the Perseverance probe from its Centaur-stage and acquisition of the probes signal: NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter, were deployed from the Centaur upper stage of a United Launch. Jones’ 1989 Integrated Space Plan, redrawn and color-coded by Nicolas Lee. CRITICAL PATH 1983 * * * * * DEFENSE SATELLITES X X X C X X ULYSSES (INTERNATIONAL) MARS OBSERVER * METALLIC=M CARBONACEOUS=C ELV DEPLOYMENT POSSIBLITY ELEMENT NAME CHROMIUM COPPER STARPROBE CENTAUR / SDV DEEP SPACE CAPABILITY LUNAR OBSERVER PROPULSION SYSTEMS AND INTERPLANETARY EXPANSION 1998 LUNAR LANDING SITE RECON MISSION ? LUNAR ROVER / SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS ? SOVIET AND CHINESE LAUNCH VEHICLES # TO LEO # TO GEO ENERGIA 220,000 SHUTTLE 66,000 SL-13 43,000 SL-12 43,000 SL-16 33,000 SL-4 16,500 SL-3 13,900 SL-14 12,100 SL-11 8,800 SL-6 4,600 SL-8 3,800 LONG MARCH 3 LONG MARCH 4 MARS ROVER / SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS CENTAUR HLV OR MLV DEEP SPACE MISSIONS (PROTON) (PROTON) SPACE STATION ENABLES IN-SPACE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY MANNED SPACE TRANSFER VEHICLE SATURN-TITAN CASSINI MISSION (INTERNATIONAL) * BIOSPHERE RESEARCH MAN TENDED GEO MERCURY ORBITER * IN-SPACE COMMERCE * SOLAR SYSTEM EXPANSION AEROBRAKE CAPABILITY 5,500 8,800 PHOBOS SAMPLE RETURN MISSION SOLAR POWERED ELECTRIC PROPULSION 2003 MAINBELT ASTEROID MULTI-ORBITER / FLYBY EARTH-MARS INJECTION CAPABILITY (CHEMICAL) CYCLER PROPULSION ELEMENT GEO CRYOGENIC AND HYPERGOLIC PROPELLANT DEPOT VENUS SAMPLE RETURN MISSION NEAR-EARTH SOLAR SAIL ASTEROID EXPLORER MPV AND MLL TRANSFER ELEMENTS OUTER PLANETS FLYBY / PROBES MARS CREW SORTIE VEHICLE BIPLANETARY CIVILIZATION LEO ASSEMBLY EVOLVES TO EXPLOIT MARTIAN CYCLING SPACESHIP ELEMENT INTEGRATION LLOX TO LLO LUNAR PROPELLANT TANKER TRANSFER TO L1 EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOSF TRANSFER TO L1 ? LOSF PROPELLANT STORAGE DEPOT HEO PROPELLANT DEPOT INTERPLANETARY SPACEPORT DEPARTURE BEGINS 2nd EARTH-MARS CYCLING SPACESHIP / MARS LANDING GOAL TRIPLANETARY FIRST CYCLING SPACESHIP RETURNS TO MARSINITIATE MARTIAN RESOURCE EXPLOITATION FIRST MANNED MARS LANDING EXPEDITION ION-DRIVE ENGINE TECHNOLOGY LEO QUARANTINE EXTERNAL TANK DERIVED WORKSHOPS (WET / DRY) COMMERCIAL AND DEFENSE SAT LAUNCHES LEO EXTERNAL TANK RESOURCE BASE / MOMENTUM RESERVOIR UNMANNED GEO COMM AND ERT PLATFORM TENDING 2003 LUNAR ORBIT STAGING / FACILITY (LOS/F) RETURN-TO-MOON CORE SAMPLE COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT EVALUATION HABITATION AND RESEARCH MODULES TAU 1000 A.U. The Integrated Space Plan recently got a modern-day overhaul by design firm 212Box (and is making its debut right here on WIRED). The crowdsourced Integrated Space Plan an evolutionary matrix of capabilities is billed as 'the most comprehensive vision of the next 100 years of space development ever produced. Buy Tickets Now The Rockwell Integrated Space Plan (Vector Redux Version) Craft & Design Science By Sean Michael Ragan July 6th, 2013 Ronald M.
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