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One very cost-effective route into orbit is as an Auxiliary Microsatellite on the ASAP-5 structure. All planned flights of the ASAP-5 structure are into GTO. The Advanced Microsatellite Mission study carried out within the ESA General Studies Programme addressed the feasibility of a deep space mission starting from this point.One of the major configuration drivers in the ASAP-5 launch envelope is...
As the third medium-class mission in the ESA's Horison 2000 science programme, a Moon Orbiting Observatory (MORO) was proposed for global mapping of lunar topography, mineralogy, geochemistry and gravity. The growing need to reduce the cost of the space missions led the study team to look for several approaches to limit the costs. It was decided therefore to study in parallel to the baseline a smallsat...