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3.2 Configuration<br />

3.2.1 Requirements and design drivers<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 130 of 422<br />

• The Transfer Vehicle (TV) is composed of the Transfer Habitation Module (THM) and<br />

the Propulsion Module (PM). The PM consists of three stages: Transfer Mars Injection<br />

stage (TMI), Mars Orbit Insertion stage (MOI) and Transfer Earth Injection stage (TEI).<br />

• All main components of the TV shall fit inside the fairing of the Energia launcher, a<br />

cylinder with a diameter of 6 m and a length of 35 m.<br />

• Interfaces between assembly elements shall be kept to a minimum to simplify the<br />

assembly.<br />

• THM shall be as independent as possible from the PM.<br />

• THM shall provide an interface with the Earth Return Capsule (ERC) and Mars<br />

Excursion Vehicle (MEV) allowing crew to move from one to the other.<br />

• Required pressurised volume of the THM should be 450 m 3 .<br />

• THM shall provide an airlock for Extra Vehicular Activities.<br />

• Each propulsion module shall be safely discardable after its usage.<br />

3.2.2 Assumptions and trade-offs<br />

For the configuration of the THM, three options were considered:<br />

• One-module configuration (Figure 3-1).<br />

• Parallel configuration (Figure 3-2).<br />

• Cross configuration (Figure 3-3).<br />

Figure 3-1: One-module configuration

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