Re: ISS as Mars vehicle

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:04:45 GMT

In article <dQIvd.4402$oq2.3729@news.cpqcorp.net>,
Rick Jones <foo@bar.baz.invalid.retro.com> wrote:
>How much additional shielding/mass did that European lunar probe had
>(SMART?) that used an ion engine to spiral out from Earth to lunar
>orbit?

SMART-1 didn't have a lot of shielding, but it did have rad-hard
electronics... and it started from GTO, not from low orbit, so it
was already partway out of the belts. 

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