Electric sail missions to potentially hazardous asteroids

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 66, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1506-1519

  Quarta, Alessandro A ^a   Mengali, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electric sail; Potentially hazardous asteroids exploration; Trajectory optimization

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL PROPULSION; FLIGHT TIME; MASS CONSUMPTION; POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS EXPLORATION; PROPULSION CONCEPT; PROPULSION SYSTEM; RADIAL THRUST; SAIL MISSIONS; SOLAR SAILS; TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION; WIND DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

ASTEROIDS;

EID: 77649186562     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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