Nanospacecraft exploration of asteroids by collision and flyby reconnaissance
Walker, Lewis and Greco, Cristian and Di Carlo, Marilena and Wilson, Andrew and Ricciardi, Lorenzo and Berquand, Audrey and Vasile, Massimiliano (2019) Nanospacecraft exploration of asteroids by collision and flyby reconnaissance. In: Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference, 2019-06-03 - 2019-06-05.
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Abstract
The number of visited asteroids is low compared to the total number that exists. Only a few missions have ever had a close approach or rendezvous with NEAs to better understand them. Additionally, as most observations are made from Earth, the uncertainties in their orbital elements could be greatly reduced with closer range measurements, while also allowing for other physical quantities to be determined such as mass, albedo, dimensions, and surface features. This concurrent design study acts as a feasibility study for a new concept of nanosatellite mission framework which is intended to allow reconnaissance of a large number of NEAs while minimizing cost. The presented mission framework consists of pairs of nanosatellites travelling together on multi-target flyby trajectories, and is designed to be flexible to suit many different target sets. One such set is presented in detail, however the methods used to find this set also generated many other possible multi flyby trajectories that could equally be launched.
ORCID iDs
Walker, Lewis, Greco, Cristian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5996-2114, Di Carlo, Marilena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5046-3028, Wilson, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0215-6669, Ricciardi, Lorenzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-7961, Berquand, Audrey and Vasile, Massimiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-6465;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 68659 Dates: DateEvent3 June 2019Published26 May 2019AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Department: Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Strategic Research Themes > Ocean, Air and SpaceDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Jul 2019 14:31 Last modified: 02 Dec 2024 01:35 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68659