Solar sailing Kinetic Energy Impactor (KEI) mission design tradeoffs for impacting and deflecting asteroid 99942 apophis

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 550-569

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

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d AIAA ^*  (United States)

^e German Space Operations Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; EARTH-MISS DISTANCE; SOLAR SAILING KINETIC ENERGY IMPACTOR (KEI);

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITATION; KINETIC ENERGY; ORBITS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

METEORITES;

EID: 33846012156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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