{"id":379290,"date":"2017-09-26T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20170008928"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:47:29","slug":"the-heliopause-electrostatic-rapid-transit-system-herts-design-trades-and-analyses-performed-in-a-two-year-nasa-investigation-of-electric-sail-propulsion-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=379290","title":{"rendered":"The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) &#8211; Design, Trades, and Analyses Performed in a Two Year NASA Investigation of Electric Sail Propulsion Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Personnel from NASA&#8217;s MSFC have been investigating the feasibility of an advanced propulsion system known as the Electric Sail (E-Sail) for future scientific exploration missions. This team initially won a NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Phase I NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) award and then a two-year follow-on Phase II NIAC award in October 2015. This paper documents the findings from this three-year investigation. An Electric sail, a propellant-less propulsion syst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Personnel from NASA&#8217;s MSFC have been investigating the feasibility of an advanced propulsion system known as the Electric Sail (E-Sail) for future scientific exploration missions. This team initially won a NASA Space Technology Mission Direct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379291,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379290\/revisions\/379291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}