AbstractAn interplanetary small satellite mission is presented in this paper. The mission is to capture a series of images of a near earth object (NEO) and transmit them back to Earth. In this work, a full design and system description of the satellite is presented along with a simple outline of the mission and the expected imagery received. The aim of the design process was to produce a practical, low-cost, small satellite mission with mainly commercial off-the-shelf components and a rapid development schedule. Despite difficult mass and volumetric constraints, the Prometheus team was able to establish that a small microsatellite observation mission for NEOs appears feasible in the near-term.


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    Title :

    Prometheus: A low-cost microsatellite flyby mission of 4179 Toutatis


    Contributors:
    Kennedy, F. (author) / Coxhill, I. (author) / Kormos, T. (author) / Imre, E. (author) / Fielding, J. (author) / Atek, S. (author) / Lappas, V. (author) / Freebody, M. (author)

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 59 , 8-11 ; 834-844


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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