The Near-Earth Space Surveillance (NESS) Mission: Discovery, Tracking, and Characterization of Asteroids, Comets, and Artificial Satellites With a Microsatellite

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Jan 2000

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Space Resources Roundtable II, p. 25

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Asteroids, Characterization, Comets, Space Exploration, Exploitation, Canada, Encounters, Extinction, Hazards, Microsatellites, Populations, Surveillance

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In the closing decade of the twentieth century asteroid and comet discovery, tracking, and characterization have attained levels of interest and committed resources previously un-parallel. This is due in large part to the level of respectability that the impact hazard has attained, but also reflects fundamental interest in the small body population of the solar system and the perceived usefulness of asteroids and (extinct) comets as exploitable resources. The respectability of studying this population was also reflected by spacecraft missions which began to include asteroid or comet encounters, or were dedicated to their observation. Asteroid and comet sample return missions are imminent. With the exception of some experimental work, all small body discovery and tracking work has been ground based, although consideration and tests of what may be achieved with a space based detector have begun. The NearEarth Space Surveillance (NESS) Mission, a microsat dedicated to observing near-Earth (NEO) and interior-to-the-Earth (IEO) asteroids and comets plus artificial satellites, is currently being studied under contract to the Canadian Space Agency.

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