The project of â??Mercuryplaneâ?â??a spacecraft for regular delivery of astronauts\nto the planet Mercury is considered. In the first stage of the flight, with\nthe help of a carrier rocket, equipped with a chemical rocket engine, astronauts\nare delivered to the international space station ISS. A design consisting\nof an interorbital module and a takeoff-landing capsule has been developed to\ndeliver astronauts from Earthâ??s orbit into Mercuryâ??s orbit. The interorbital\nmodule is an electric rocket equipped with 8 superconductor magnetoplasma\nelectric engines MARS type. The electric power supply for the engines is provided\nby a collapsible solar panel made of gallium arsenide. The design of the\ntakeoff-landing capsule has been developed for landing and take-off from the\nsurface of Mercury. A device has been developed to refuel in Earthâ??s orbit the\nelectric rocket engines with nitrogen, and chemical rocket engines with oxygen\nand hydrogen, which are in liquid state The developed spacecraft is able\nto regularly deliver three astronauts from Earth orbit to the surface of Mercury\nwithin 35 days.
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