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20192022
most citedPreliminary mission profile of Hera's Milani CubeSat

61 citations · 116 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.EP2022

After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission

Thomas S. Statler, Sabina D. Raducan, Olivier S. Barnouin +38

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the first full-scale test of an asteroid deflection technology. Results from the hypervelocity kinetic impact and Earth-based obse…

astro-ph.EP2022

Effects of impact and target parameters on the results of a kinetic impactor: predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

Angela M. Stickle, Mallory E. DeCoster, Christoph Burger +30

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for planetary defen…

astro-ph.EP202161 cited

Preliminary mission profile of Hera's Milani CubeSat

Fabio Ferrari, Vittorio Franzese, Mattia Pugliatti +2

CubeSats offer a flexible and low-cost option to increase the scientific and technological return of small-body exploration missions. ESA's Hera mission, the European component of…

astro-ph.EP202030 cited

The role of fragment shapes in the simulations of asteroids as gravitational aggregates

Fabio Ferrari, Paolo Tanga

Remote measurements and in-situ observations confirm the idea that asteroids up to few hundreds of meters in size might be rubble piles. The dynamics of these objects can be studie…

astro-ph.EP201925 cited

A parallel-GPU code for asteroid aggregation problems with angular particles

F. Ferrari, M. Lavagna, E. Blazquez

The paper presents a numerical implementation of the gravitational N-body problem with contact interactions between non-spherically shaped bodies. The work builds up on a previous…