Descripción
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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
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Si |
Nombre congreso
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22nd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting |
Tipo de participación
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960 |
Lugar del congreso
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Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
Revisores
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Si |
ISBN o ISSN
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978-0-87703-581-7 |
DOI
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Fecha inicio congreso
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29/01/2012 |
Fecha fin congreso
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02/02/2012 |
Desde la página
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371 |
Hasta la página
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378 |
Título de las actas
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ADVANCES IN THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, Vol. 143 |