Paving the way for an effective deflection mission: State of the art NEO precursor missions

Collection of Technical Papers - 2004 Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 97-104

  Gálvez, Andrés ^a   González, Jose A ^b   Martín Albo, Juan F ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b DEIMOS SPACE S L U   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ASTEROID DEFLECTION; ASTEROID THREAT DETECTION; COUPLING DEVICES; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 20344406831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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