Solar sail trajectory optimization for intercepting, impacting, and deflecting near-earth asteroids

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3331-3348

  Dachwald, Bernd ^a,c,d   Wie, Bong ^b,d,e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Space Simulation   (Germany)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); IMPACT TESTING; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE INTERCEPTION; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

ASTEROID MITIGATION; KINETIC ENERGY INTERCEPTOR (KEI); NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID (NBA); PERIHELION;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 29744469464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-6176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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