Passive sorting of asteroid material using solar radiation pressure

Garcia Yarnoz, Daniel and Sanchez Cuartielles, Joan-Pau and McInnes, Colin (2014) Passive sorting of asteroid material using solar radiation pressure. Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 37 (4). pp. 1223-1235. ISSN 1533-3884

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Abstract

Understanding dust dynamics in the vicinity of asteroids is key for future science missions and, in the long-term, for asteroid exploitation. This paper analyses the feasibility of manipulating asteroid material by means of solar radiation pressure. A novel method is proposed for passively sorting material as a function of its grain size or density, where solar radiation pressure is used as a passive in-situ ‘mass spectrometer’. A simplified analysis shows that in principle this method allows an effective sorting of regolith material. This could have immediate applications for a sample return mission, and for industrial scale in-situ resource utilization to separate and concentrate regolith according to particle size or composition.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	46556
  Dates:	Date Event July 2014 Published 28 March 2014 Published Online 23 September 2013 Accepted
  Notes:	First Author Owns Copyright
  Keywords:	asteroid exploitation, asteroid resource utilisation, solar radiation pressure, near Earth asteroids, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
  Subjects:	Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
  Department:	Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre > Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	23 Jan 2014 13:41
  Last modified:	21 Jul 2021 01:43
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/46556