Outer solar system prospective energy and material resources - Badescu, Viorel; Zacny, Kris; SpringerLink (Online service). (Cham Springer International Publishing, 2018)
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.
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Keywords: Astrophysics; Planetology; Astronautics; Electronic books