In 2010 and 2011 NASA and KISS sponsored studies to investigate the feasibility of identifying, capturing, and returning an entire (albeit small) NEA to the vicinity of Earth, and concluded that a 40-kW solar electric propulsion system launched on an Atlas 551 provided sufficient propulsion to control an asteroid's trajectory. Once secured by the spacecraft, a NEA with a naturally close encounter with Earth is nudged over a few years to target a lunar gravity assist, capturing the object into Earth orbit. With further use of solar perturbations, up to 3,600,000 kg of NEA could be placed in high-lunar orbit.


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    Titel :

    Trajectories to Nab a NEA (Near-Earth Asteroid)


    Beteiligte:
    Landau, Damon (Autor:in) / Dankanich, John (Autor:in) / Strange, Nathan (Autor:in) / Bellerose, Julie (Autor:in) / Llanos, Pedro (Autor:in) / Tantardini, Marco (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting ; 2013 ; Kauai, HI, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-02-10


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






    Trajectories to Nab a NEA (Near-Earth Asteroid) (AAS 13-409)

    Landau, D. / Dankanich, J. / Strange, N. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013


    Post-Launch Contingency Trajectories for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

    McAdams, J. / American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics / American Astronautical Society | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996