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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…
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…
The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects
Ravi teja Nallapu, Yinan Xu, Abraham Marquez +2
The recent observation of interstellar objects, 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov cross the solar system opened new opportunities for planetary science and planetary defense. As the first…
Investigating Asteroid Surface Geophysics with an Ultra-Low-Gravity Centrifuge in Low-Earth Orbit
Stephen R. Schwartz, Jekan Thangavelautham, Erik Asphaug +3
Near-Earth small-body mission targets 162173 Ryugu, 101955 Bennu, and 25143 Itokawa produce gravity fields around 4 orders of magnitude below that of Earth and their irregular shap…
Planetary Exploration Using CubeSat Deployed Sailplanes
Adrien Bouskela, Alexandre Kling, Aman Chandra +3
Exploration of terrestrial planets such as Mars are conducted using orbiters, landers and rovers. Cameras and instruments onboard orbiters have enabled global mapping of Mars at lo…
Development and Testing of an Engineering Model for an Asteroid Hopping Robot
Greg Wilburn, Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham
The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Two of the main questions from the Decadal Survey pertain to what the "initial…