Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Earth Delivery of a Small NEO with an Ion Beam Shepherd
Año:2012
Áreas de investigación
  • Fisica y ciencias del espacio
Datos
Descripción
The possibility of capturing a small Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) and deliver it to the vicinity of the Earth has been recently explored by different authors. The key advantage would be to allow a cheap and quick access to the NEA for science, resource utilization and other purposes. Among the different challenges related to this operation stands the difficulty of robotically capturing the object, whose composition and dynamical state could be problematic. In order to simplify the capture operation we propose the use of a collimated ion beam ejected from a hovering spacecraft in order to maneuver the object without direct physical contact. The feasibility of a possible asteroid retrieval mission is evaluated.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
22nd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-0-87703-581-7
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
29/01/2012
Fecha fin congreso
02/02/2012
Desde la página
371
Hasta la página
378
Título de las actas
ADVANCES IN THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, Vol. 143
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Participantes
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  • Creador: Departamento: Física Aplicada a la Ingeniería Aeronáutica