In this hardware project, the students developed ideas for attaching objects to the surface of small moons or asteroids. A device was designed, and built in the university machine shop, that uses a projectile shot into concrete, thereby attaching a model spacecraft to the landing site.
Planetary and Asteroid Missions. Getting There: Anchoring Spacecraft to Asteroids
1993
18 pages
Report
No indication
English
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