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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…
GNC Challenges and Opportunities of CubeSat Science Missions Deployed from the Lunar Gateway
Himangshu Kalita, Miguel Donayre, Victor Padilla +6
The Lunar Gateway is expected to be positioned on-orbit around the Moon or in a Halo orbit at the L2 Lagrange point. The proposed Lunar Gateway is a game-changer for enabling new,…
An Autonomous Passive Navigation Method for Nanosatellite Exploration of the Asteroid Belt
Leonard Vance, Jekan Thangavelautham, Erik Asphaug
There are more than 750,000 asteroids identified in the main belt. These asteroids are diverse in composition and size. Some of these asteroids can be traced back to the early sola…
Guidance, Navigation and Control of Asteroid Mobile Imager and Geologic Observer (AMIGO)
Greg Wilburn, Himangshu Kalita, Aman Chandra +3
The science and origins of asteroids is deemed high priority in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Major scientific goals for the study of planetesimals are to decipher geologic…
An On-Orbit CubeSat Centrifuge for Asteroid Science and Exploration
Jekan Thangavelautham, Erik Asphaug, Stephen Schwartz
There are thousands of asteroids in near-Earth space and millions expected in the Main Belt. They are diverse in their physical properties and compositions. They are also time caps…
A Milli-Newton Propulsion System for the Asteroid Mobile Imager and Geologic Observer (AMIGO)
Greg Wilburn, Erik Asphaug, Jekan Thangavelautham
Exploration of small bodies, namely comets and asteroids remain a challenging endeavor due to their low gravity. The risk is so high that missions such as Hayabusa II and OSIRIS-RE…