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Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology

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Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART)[1] was a European Space Agency programme for building technology demonstrator space probes and testing them in outer space as space missions.[2]

SMART missions include:

  • SMART-1, a mission to test electric propulsion rockets, by using Hall-effect thrusters; and also used as an outer space probe, and lunar probe.[3]
  • SMART-2 LISA Pathfinder, a mission to test the feasibility of formation flying multiple satellites for precision laser measurement, for use as a gravity wave detector.[4][5]
  • SMART-3, an unfulfilled 2006 design deadline.[6]
  • SMART-4, an unfulfilled 2009 design deadline.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Europe reaches the Moon!". European Space Agency. 16 November 2004.
  2. ^ Giuseppe D. Racca (August–November 1999). "SMART 1: The first small mission for advanced research in technology". Acta Astronautica. 45 (4–9): 337–345. Bibcode:1999AcAau..45..337R. doi:10.1016/S0094-5765(99)00152-6 – via Science Direct.
  3. ^ Christophe Koppel (31 December 2004). "The SMART-1 Hall Effect Thruster Around the Moon: In Flight Experience". SciSpace.
  4. ^ "SMART-2 will pave the way for ESA's ambitious Darwin and LISA missions". European Space Agency. 18 February 2002.
  5. ^ Vitale, S.; et al. (July 2002). "LISA and its in-flight test precursor SMART-2". Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements). 110: 209–216. Bibcode:2002NuPhS.110..209V. doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01484-6. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0012-2710-D.
  6. ^ a b Giampalmo, Giuseppe (February 1999). "The European Space Agency - a Brief Presentation". Cooperation in Space, Euro-Asian Space Week : where East and West finally meet, Singapore, 23-27 November 1998. Vol. 430. Paris: European Space Agency. p. 3. Bibcode:1999ESASP.430....3G. ISBN 9290927208.