Minispacecraft for a multiple-asteroid rendezvous mission

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Feb 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993asd..confr....f&link_type=abstract

AIAA, AHS, and ASEE, Aerospace Design Conference, Irvine, CA, Feb. 16-19, 1993, 12 p.

Computer Science

Asteroid Belts, Asteroid Missions, Interplanetary Trajectories, Space Rendezvous, Spacecraft Design, Weight Reduction, Earth Orbits, Solar System Evolution, Structural Weight, Trajectory Planning

Scientific paper

The development of the Multiple Asteroid Rendezvous Tracker and Explorer spacecraft, which is designed for the analysis of the composition and the motion of several main-belt asteroids, is discussed. The mission includes a laboratory lander craft (the main lab) and several minispacecraft. The main lab will be equipped with a complete sample analysis laboratory and multiple external sensors. Each of the minispacecraft, which are much smaller than the main lab and contain only a few instruments, is targeted to rendezvous with an asteroid, on which it will land and perform a preliminary surface analysis. This will identify the most scientifically interesting asteroid. The main lab will then be sent to this asteroid for performing a detailed analysis including soil sampling.

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