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Advances in microelectronics technologies over the past several decades have truely revolutionized modern society in almost every aspect of human endeavor.
With NASA's spectacular return to Mars on July 4th 1997, the Mars Pathfinder Lander and its Sojourner Microrover have set a new standard for Faster, Better, Cheaper space exploration missions.
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In this paper, the authors propose a new process for the development and operation of inmanned vehicles for the exploration of space. We call the vehicle Sciencecraft to distinguish it from the more traditional vehicle Spacecraft. A Sciencecraft is an integrated unit that combines science instruments, electronics, telecommunications, power, and propulsion elements into a single system.
The Kuiper Express is a mission to achieve the first reconnaissance of one of the primitive objects in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Express is a sciencecraft mission. It will be launched using a Delta vehicle and will use solar electric propulsion to shape its trajectory in the inner Solar System, while executing two Earth gravity-assist flybys.