This paper presents the results of a NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) Phase 2 study entitled "An Innovative Solution to NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Impact Threat Mitigation Grand Challenge and Flight Validation Mission Architecture Development." This NIAC Phase 2 study was conducted at the Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) of Iowa State University in 2012-2014. The study objective was to develop an innovative yet practically implementable mitigation strategy for the most probable impact threat of an asteroid or comet with short warning time (less than 5 years). The mitigation strategy described in this paper is intended to optimally reduce the severity and catastrophic damage of the NEO impact event, especially when we don't have sufficient warning times for non-disruptive deflection of a hazardous NEO. This paper provides an executive summary of the NIAC Phase 2 study results.


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    Title :

    An Optimal Mitigation Strategy Against the Asteroid Impact Threat with Short Warning Time


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies ; 2015 ; Istanbul, Turkey


    Publication date :

    2015-06-16


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English





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