A small mission for in situ exploration of a primitive binary near-Earth asteroid

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-324

  Ball, Andrew J ^a   Ulamec, Stephan ^b   Dachwald, Bernd ^b   Price, Michael E ^c   Nadalini, Riccardo ^b   Luethi, Benjamin ^d   Wolters, Stephen D ^a   Sheridan, Simon ^a   Green, Simon F ^a   Zarnecki, John C ^a   D'Arrigo, Paolo ^e   Seiferlin, Karsten ^d   Kargl, Günter ^f   Goerke, Nils ^g  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interplanetary spacecraft; Near Earth asteroids; Planetary landers; Space missions

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COSMOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LIFE CYCLE; PLANETARY LANDERS; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ASTEROID MISSION; BINARY ASTEROIDS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU SCIENCE; NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS; REMOTE OBSERVATION; SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION; SPACE MISSIONS;

ASTEROIDS;

EID: 58149313895     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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