Mission concept is to assess the feasibility of using solar sail propulsion to enable a robotic precursor that would survey multiple Near Earth Objects (NEOs) for potential future human visits. Single spacecraft will rendezvous with and image 3 NEOs within 6 years of launch.


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    Title :

    Multiple NEO Rendezvous Using Solar Sails


    Contributors:
    L. Johnson (author) / L. Alexander (author) / L. Fabisinski (author) / A. Heaton (author) / J. Miernik (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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