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:

    Conference:

    Global Space Exploration Conference ; 2012 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-05-22


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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