Deep Space Human Transportation Support

SEP-VASIMR^® system can greatly reduce the propellant use to travel from Earth to destinations such as Mars thus greatly reducing the initial mass of the space transportation vehicle at the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the cost of the mission. For human mission to Deimos, studied by NASA (N. Strange, R. Merrill, D. Landau, B. Drake, J.R. Brophy, R. Hofer, “Human Missions to Phobos and Deimos Using Combined Chemical and Solar Electric Propulsion”, AIAA-2011-5663, 47th AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, San Diego, California, July 31-3, 2011), SEP-VASIMR^® mission can be implemented with the same duration, but required less propellant and smaller initial mass.