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2025
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18100207 |
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- <p>Traditional human Mars mission concepts have largely emphasized single-launch or tightly coupled mission architectures that seek to minimize mass and transit time. While technically sophisticated, these approaches often lack redundancy, scalability, and tolerance for failure, making them poorly suited for sustained human presence beyond isolated missions.</p> <p>This paper presents <strong>Odyssey Horizon</strong>, a distributed, infrastructure-based architecture for sustained human Mars migration. Rather than treating Mars travel as a one-time expedition, the proposed system reframes interplanetary transit as a logistics and infrastructure problem. The architecture integrates a long-duration orbital habitat, hybrid propulsion strategy, reusable tanker corridor, modular surface infrastructure, and a Transverse Pinpoint Relay (TPR) network for navigation and communications.</p> <p>All system elements are constrained to known physical principles and existing or near-term engineering capabilities. Electric propulsion is employed for efficient long-duration cruise, chemical propulsion is reserved for high-thrust events, and propellant is managed as distributed inventory rather than a single onboard constraint. Redundancy, modularity, and time-tolerant operations are treated as primary design features rather than secondary optimizations.</p> <p>The analysis demonstrates that sustained human Mars operations are feasible without invoking speculative propulsion or violations of established physics, provided that system design prioritizes resilience, reusability, and infrastructure continuity over single-mission optimization.</p>