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Development of Techniques Enabling Suborbital Small Object Capture Around Low Gravity Asteroids
Leonard Vance, Jekan Thangavelautham
The exploration of small body asteroids provides direct access to the primitive building blocks of our solar system. Sample and return missions enable chemical and radioisotope stu…
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FemtoSats for Exploring Permanently Shadowed Regions on the Moon
Alvaro Diaz-Flores, José Fernández, Leonard Vance +2
The recent, rapid advancement in space exploration is thanks to the accelerated miniaturization of electronics components on a spacecraft that is reducing the mass, volume and cost…