Athos deflection mission analysis and design

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 457-466

  Kahle, Ralph ^a,c   Hahn, Gerhard ^a,c   Kührt, Ekkehard ^a,c   Fasoulas, Stefanos ^b,d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Section Physics of Small Bodies   (Germany)

^d Space Systems and Utilization ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID DEFLECTION; BINARY ASTEROIDS; NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS (NEO); PAYLOAD ANALYSIS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COSTS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINETIC ENERGY; ORBITS; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 20344407829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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