Exploration missions to other planets have to satisfy planetary protection requirements to limit the probability of impacts between mission-related objects and celestial bodies, with the goal of reducing the risk of contaminating them with biological material coming from Earth. The verification of these requirements can become a lengthy and computationally expensive task when addressed with common methods such as Monte Carlo simulations, as they involve analysing the interplanetary trajectories and the uncertainties associated with them for time spans up to 100 years, and estimating small probabilities with strict confidence levels. This paper presents novel improvements of the line sampling method, already introduced for the verification of planetary protection requirements as a way to estimate the impact probabilities more efficiently and with greater accuracy than achieved with standard Monte Carlo. These newly developed techniques are presented, with the aim of making the analysis with Line Sampling more effective, and providing more information about the distribution of impacts in the initial uncertainty distribution: an algorithm to identify the time intervals where most close approaches are clustered, and an algorithm to improve the determination of the main sampling direction and increase the accuracy of the probability estimation.


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    Titel :

    Line Sampling Procedure for Extensive Planetary Protection Analysis


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    J Astronaut Sci


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    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.12.2022


    Format / Umfang :

    36 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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