Outer Solar System (eBook)

A Survey of Pluto’s Surface Composition.- Physical Properties of Icy Materials.- Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Resource Capturing, Storage, and Utilization.- Project VALKYRIE: Laser-powered Cryobots and Other Methods for Penetrating Deep Ice on Ocean Worlds.- Europa Drum Sampler (EDuS).- Drilling mechanisms using piezoelectric actuators developed at Jet Propulsion Laboratories.- Ultrasonically-assisted penetration of granular and cemented materials.- Flight in the Outer Solar System and Interstellar Travel.- Triton Hopper: Exploring Neptune’s Captured Kuiper Belt Object.- Sub-Ice Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Architectures for Ocean World Exploration and Life Search.- Titan Submarine.- WindBots: A Concept for Persistent In-Situ Science Explorers for Gas Giants.- Enceladus Vent Explorer Concept.- Prospect of Exploration and Exploitation of Kuiper Belt Object Resources in the Future.- Outer Solar System – Sample Return Mission by an Unmanned Interplanetary Spaceship UNIS.- Spacecraft Power System Considerations for the Far Reaches of the Solar System.- Hybrid nuclear spacecraft for the outer planets.- Exploration of the Outer Solar System: Missions and their Power Systems.- Multi-Rendezvous Solar Electric Propulsion Mission Opportunities to Jupiter Trojans.- Implausible, Yet Intriguing:  Business in the Outer Solar System.- Sources of Energy in the Outer Solar System.