Add to ORKGA range of mission concepts will be discussed which explore the use of solar sail propulsion for high-energy small body missions. It will be shown that a modest sized solar sail can enable high energy small body sample return from extremely demanding targets, while a larger solar sail can quickly deliver a significant payload to high eccentricity comets. Lastly, it will be shown that potentially hazardous near Earth asteroids can be deflected using kinetic energy impacts by using a solar sail to deliver the impactor to a high-energy retrograde orbit
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...
Solar sailing is a unique and elegant form of propulsion that transcends reliance on reaction mass. ...
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...
A range of mission concepts will be discussed which explore the use of solar sail propulsion for hig...
Solar sailing can enable fly-by, rendezvous and sample return missions to high-energy asteroid and c...
A fictional asteroid-mitigation problem created by AIAA assumes that a 200-m near-Earth asteroid, de...
A fictional asteroid mitigation problem posed by AIAA assumes that a 200m near-Earth asteroid (NEA),...
Solar sailing is a proposed means of space propulsion in which a reflective surface collects momentu...
Solar sailing is emerging as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion, which can enable ex...
Solar sail technology offers a new capability to enable fast, efficient and low cost science mission...
Solar sailing is a unique and elegant form of propulsion which transcends reliance on reaction mass....
The exploration of small solar system bodies started with fast fly-bys of opportunity on the sidelin...
Over the last several years, interest in a more vigorous space exploration program has renewed inter...
One competing technology proposed for the New Millennium Program Space Technology 9 (ST9) mission de...
An assessment of terrestrial planet sample return missions utilising solar sail propulsion is presen...
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...
Solar sailing is a unique and elegant form of propulsion that transcends reliance on reaction mass. ...
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...
A range of mission concepts will be discussed which explore the use of solar sail propulsion for hig...
Solar sailing can enable fly-by, rendezvous and sample return missions to high-energy asteroid and c...
A fictional asteroid-mitigation problem created by AIAA assumes that a 200-m near-Earth asteroid, de...
A fictional asteroid mitigation problem posed by AIAA assumes that a 200m near-Earth asteroid (NEA),...
Solar sailing is a proposed means of space propulsion in which a reflective surface collects momentu...
Solar sailing is emerging as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion, which can enable ex...
Solar sail technology offers a new capability to enable fast, efficient and low cost science mission...
Solar sailing is a unique and elegant form of propulsion which transcends reliance on reaction mass....
The exploration of small solar system bodies started with fast fly-bys of opportunity on the sidelin...
Over the last several years, interest in a more vigorous space exploration program has renewed inter...
One competing technology proposed for the New Millennium Program Space Technology 9 (ST9) mission de...
An assessment of terrestrial planet sample return missions utilising solar sail propulsion is presen...
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...
Solar sailing is a unique and elegant form of propulsion that transcends reliance on reaction mass. ...
Previous studies of non-nuclear diversion of near Earth asteroids have largely ignored the use of pu...