Asteroid touring mission with Electric Solar Wind Sail

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1363m&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1363

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Current and planned asteroid missions target only a single, or a few of asteroids, and have consumed their propellant after reaching their targets. We propose here using the new Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) technology in a mission touring several different asteroids with the same spacecraft. This is made possible by the fact that E-sail does not consume any propellant and that the E-sail is well manoeuvrable. Moreover, most of the asteroids reside at a convenient distance from the Sun, providing the Esail with a sufficient stream of solar wind particles to draw momentum from. Currently E-sail seems to be a superior propulsion method for asteroid touring mission type of tasks discussed in this paper.

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