TY  - CHAP
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
T1  - Multiple NEA rendezvous mission: Solar sailing options
T2  - Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing
N2  - The scientific interest in near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and the classification of some of those as potentially hazardous asteroid for the Earth stipulated the interest in NEA exploration. Close-up observations of these objects will increase drastically our knowledge about the overall NEA population. For this reason, a multiple NEA rendezvous mission through solar sailing is investigated, taking advantage of the propellantless nature of this groundbreaking propulsion technology. Considering a spacecraft based on the DLR/ESA Gossamer technology, this work focuses on the search of possible sequences of NEA encounters. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through a number of fully-optimized trajectories. The results show that it is possible to visit five NEAs within 10 years with near-term solar-sail technology. Moreover, a study on a reduced NEA database demonstrates the reliability of the approach used, showing that 58% of the sequences found with an approximated trajectory model can be converted into real solar-sail trajectories. Lastly, this second study shows the effectiveness of the proposed automatic optimization algorithm, which is able to find solutions for a large number of mission scenarios without any input required from the user.
KW  - Multiphase
KW  - Trajectory Optimization
KW  - Automated Optimization
KW  - Gossamer
KW  - Sequence-Search
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2017), Kyoto, Japan, 17-20 Jan 2017.
http://www.jsforum.or.jp/ISSS2017/
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Boden, Ralf
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Dumont, Etienne
A1  - Grimm, Christian D.
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Lichtenheldt, Roy
A1  - Pelivan, Ivanka
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Riemann, Johannes
A1  - Spröwitz, Tom
A1  - Tardivel, Simon
T1  - Soil to sail-asteroid landers on near-term sailcraft as an evolution of the GOSSAMER small spacecraft solar sail concept for in-situ characterization
T2  - 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference
KW  - multiple NEA rendezvous
KW  - solar sail
KW  - GOSSAMER-1
KW  - MASCOT
KW  - asteroid sample return
Y1  - 2017
N1  - 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference – PDC 2017
15-19 May 2017, Tokyo, Japan
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Solar-sail trajectory design for a multiple near-earth-asteroid rendezvous mission
JF  - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
N2  - The scientific interest for near-Earth asteroids as well as the interest in potentially hazardous asteroids from the perspective of planetary defense led the space community to focus on near-Earth asteroid mission studies. A multiple near-Earth asteroid rendezvous mission with close-up observations of several objects can help to improve the characterization of these asteroids. This work explores the design of a solar-sail spacecraft for such a mission, focusing on the search of possible sequences of encounters and the trajectory optimization. This is done in two sequential steps: a sequence search by means of a simplified trajectory model and a set of heuristic rules based on astrodynamics, and a subsequent optimization phase. A shape-based approach for solar sailing has been developed and is used for the first phase. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through a fully optimized multiple near-Earth asteroid rendezvous mission. The results show that it is possible to visit five near-Earth asteroids within 10 years with near-term solar-sail technology.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/1.G000470
SN  - 0731-5090
VL  - 39
IS  - 12
SP  - 2712
EP  - 2724
PB  - AIAA
CY  - Reston, Va.
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Solar-Sailing Trajectory Design for Close-up NEA Observations Mission
T2  - 4th IAA Planetary Defense Conference - PDC 2015, 13-17 April 2015, Frascati, Roma, Italy
Y1  - 2015
N1  - IAA-PDC-15-P-19
ER  -