Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.4924s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #49.24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
On April 15th, at the Kennedy Space Center, President Obama announced his new goals for NASA's human spaceflight activities. One of the most exciting challenges that he gave to NASA was a human journey to an asteroid in 2025 as part of a path the leads to human Mars missions in the 2030s.
This poster presents the results from a trajectory search for candidate asteroids for human exploration missions in 2020-2035. This search was conducted using independent methodologies by astrodynamics researchers at the NASA/JPL and ESA/ESTEC research centers. Both chemical propulsion and Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) trajectories are identified.
Not much is known about the physical properties of many of these asteroids, and it is hoped that the asteroids identified in this search can be targets for both ground-based and space-based observations that will help to identify the most scientifically interesting targets for future human missions.
Biscani Francesco
Izzo Dario
Landau Damon F.
Strange Nathan J.
Yam Chi-Yung
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