Abstract In recent years, the retrieval of entire asteroids has received significant attention, with many approaches leveraging the invariant manifolds of the Circular-Restricted Three-body Problem to capture an asteroid into a periodic orbit about the or points of the Sun–Earth system. Previous works defined an ‘Easily Retrievable Object’ (ERO) as any Near-Earth Object (NEO) which is retrievable using these invariant manifolds with an impulsive of less than . We extend the previous literature by analysing the Pareto fronts for the EROs discovered for the first time, using high-performance computing to lift optimisation constraints used in previous literature, and modifying the method used to filter unsuitable NEOs from the NEO catalogue. In doing so, we can demonstrate that EROs have approximately the same transfer cost for almost any possible transfer time, including single-impulse transfers, which could offer significant flexibility to mission designers. We also identify 44 EROs, of which 27 are new, and improve on previously-known transfer solutions by up to , including 17 new capture trajectories with costs of less than .
Highlights Improved pre-filtering and identification of ‘Easily Retrievable Objects’ (EROs). Most complete survey of the ERO population with 44 objects found. 17 new EROs requiring below 100 m/s to capture. Retrieval cost for typical EROs is similar across a wide range of transfer times. Single-impulse captures have similar cost as two-impulse transfers for many EROs.
On asteroid retrieval missions enabled by invariant manifold dynamics
Acta Astronautica ; 183 ; 43-51
2021-03-06
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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