Reliable Refills: Orbital Refueling Station
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Reliable Refills proposes a private mission named the Commercial Heavy-lift Orbital Refueling Depot (CHORD) to provide economically feasible orbital refueling for deep space missions. By decoupling cargo/propellant from the dry bus, CHORD will enable much higher mass payloads such as those necessary to complete manned missions to Mars or robotic landings on Titan. Additionally, refueling in orbit allows other missions to make use of more economic and frequent medium sized rocket launches as opposed to expensive and less reliable heavy-lift rockets. My role was as team lead.
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