TY - GEN
T1 - Near-Earth asteroid survey mission concept using solar sailing technology
AU - Bando, Mai
AU - Yamakawa, Hiroshi
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of asteroid survey mission enabled by advanced solar sailing technology. The study is focused not on the solar sail spacecraft itself but on its orbital dynamics to realize the missions. A novel NEA flyby survey mission with a light-weight solar sail spacecraft to increase the accessibility to NEAs located in the vicinity of the Earth's orbit is proposed. Numerical study suggests that our approach increase the opportunities in proximity to NEAs which have eccentric and inclined orbits.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of asteroid survey mission enabled by advanced solar sailing technology. The study is focused not on the solar sail spacecraft itself but on its orbital dynamics to realize the missions. A novel NEA flyby survey mission with a light-weight solar sail spacecraft to increase the accessibility to NEAs located in the vicinity of the Earth's orbit is proposed. Numerical study suggests that our approach increase the opportunities in proximity to NEAs which have eccentric and inclined orbits.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80053400080
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80053400080#tab=citedBy
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053400080
SN - 9780877035626
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 257
EP - 269
BT - Applications of Space Technology for Humanity - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
T2 - 12th International Conference of Pacific-Basin Societies, ISCOPS
Y2 - 27 July 2010 through 30 July 2010
ER -