TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Bauer, Waldemar
A1  - Boden, Ralf Christian
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - Cordero, Federico
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Dumont, Etienne
A1  - Grimm, Christian D.
A1  - Hercik, D.
A1  - Herique, A.
A1  - Ho, Tra-Mi
A1  - Jahnke, Rico
A1  - Kofman, Wlodek
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Lichtenheldt, Roy
A1  - McInnes, Colin R.
A1  - Mikschl, Tobias
A1  - Mikulz, Eugen
A1  - Montenegro, Sergio
A1  - Moore, Iain
A1  - Pelivan, Ivanka
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Plettemeier, Dirk
A1  - Quantius, Dominik
A1  - Reershemius, Siebo
A1  - Renger, Thomas
A1  - Riemann, Johannes
A1  - Rogez, Yves
A1  - Ruffer, Michael
A1  - Sasaki, Kaname
A1  - Schmitz, Nicole
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
A1  - Seefeldt, Patric
A1  - Spietz, Peter
A1  - Spröwitz, Tom
A1  - Sznajder, Maciej
A1  - Toth, Norbert
A1  - Viavattene, Giulia
A1  - Wejmo, Elisabet
A1  - Wolff, Friederike
A1  - Ziach, Christian
T1  - Responsive integrated small spacecraft solar sail and payload design concepts and missions
T2  - Conference: 5th International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2019)
N2  - Asteroid mining has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of in-space manufacturing, production of propellant for space transportation and consumables for crewed spacecraft, compared to launching the required resources from Earth’s deep gravity well. This paper discusses the top-level mission architecture and trajectory design for these resource-return missions, comparing high-thrust trajectories with continuous low-thrust solar-sail trajectories. This work focuses on maximizing the economic Net Present Value, which takes the time-cost of finance into account and therefore balances the returned resource mass and mission duration. The different propulsion methods will then be compared in terms of maximum economic return, sets of attainable target asteroids, and mission flexibility. This paper provides one more step towards making commercial asteroid mining an economically viable reality by integrating trajectory design, propulsion technology and economic modelling.
Y1  - 2019
N1  - Conference: 5th International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2019)At: Aachen, Germany
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Meß, Jan-Gerd
A1  - Biele, Jens
A1  - Seefeldt, Patric
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Spietz, Peter
A1  - Grimm, Christian D.
A1  - Spröwitz, Tom
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Ulamec, Stephan
T1  - Small spacecraft in small solar system body applications
T2  - IEEE Aerospace Conference 2017, Big Sky, Montana, USA
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 978-1-5090-1613-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2017.7943626
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Borella, Laura
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - Chand, Suditi
A1  - Cordero, Federico
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Fexer, Sebastian
A1  - Grimm, Christian D.
A1  - Hendrikse, Jeffrey
A1  - Herčík, David
A1  - Herique, Alain
A1  - Hillebrandt, Martin
A1  - Ho, Tra-Mi
A1  - Kesseler, Lars
A1  - Laabs, Martin
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Lange, Michael
A1  - Lichtenheldt, Roy
A1  - McInnes, Colin R.
A1  - Moore, Iain
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Plettenmeier, Dirk
A1  - Quantius, Dominik
A1  - Seefeldt, Patric
A1  - Venditti, Flaviane c. F.
A1  - Vergaaij, Merel
A1  - Viavattene, Giulia
A1  - Virkki, Anne K.
A1  - Zander, Martin
T1  - More bucks for the bang: new space solutions, impact tourism and one unique science & engineering opportunity at T-6 months and counting
T2  - 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference
N2  - For now, the Planetary Defense Conference Exercise 2021's incoming fictitious(!), asteroid, 2021 PDC, seems headed for impact on October 20th, 2021, exactly 6 months after its discovery. Today (April 26th, 2021), the impact probability is 5%, in a steep rise from 1 in 2500 upon discovery six days ago. We all know how these things end. Or do we? Unless somebody kicked off another headline-grabbing media scare or wants to keep civil defense very idle very soon, chances are that it will hit (note: this is an exercise!). Taking stock, it is barely 6 months to impact, a steadily rising likelihood that it will actually happen, and a huge uncertainty of possible impact energies: First estimates range from 1.2 MtTNT to 13 GtTNT, and this is not even the worst-worst case: a 700 m diameter massive NiFe asteroid (covered by a thin veneer of Ryugu-black rubble to match size and brightness), would come in at 70 GtTNT. In down to Earth terms, this could be all between smashing fireworks over some remote area of the globe and a 7.5 km crater downtown somewhere. Considering the deliberate and sedate ways of development of interplanetary missions it seems we can only stand and stare until we know well enough where to tell people to pack up all that can be moved at all and save themselves. But then, it could just as well be a smaller bright rock. The best estimate is 120 m diameter from optical observation alone, by 13% standard albedo. NASA's upcoming DART mission to binary asteroid (65803) Didymos is designed to hit such a small target, its moonlet Dimorphos. The Deep Impact mission's impactor in 2005 successfully guided itself to the brightest spot on comet 9P/Tempel 1, a relatively small feature on the 6 km nucleus. And 'space' has changed: By the end of this decade, one satellite communication network plans to have launched over 11000 satellites at a pace of 60 per launch every other week. This level of series production is comparable in numbers to the most prolific commercial airliners. Launch vehicle production has not simply increased correspondingly – they can be reused, although in a trade for performance. Optical and radio astronomy as well as planetary radar have made great strides in the past decade, and so has the design and production capability for everyday 'high-tech' products. 60 years ago, spaceflight was invented from scratch within two years, and there are recent examples of fast-paced space projects as well as a drive towards 'responsive space'. It seems it is not quite yet time to abandon all hope. We present what could be done and what is too close to call once thinking is shoved out of the box by a clear and present danger, to show where a little more preparedness or routine would come in handy – or become decisive. And if we fail, let's stand and stare safely and well instrumented anywhere on Earth together in the greatest adventure of science.
Y1  - 2021
N1  - 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 April 2021
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Bauer, Wlademar
A1  - Borchers, Kai
A1  - Dumont, Etienne
A1  - Grimm, Christian D.
A1  - Ho, Tra-Mi
A1  - Jahnke, Rico
A1  - Koch, Aaron D.
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Maiwald, Volker
A1  - Meß, Jan-Gerd
A1  - Mikulz, Eugen
A1  - Quantius, Dominik
A1  - Reershemius, Siebo
A1  - Renger, Thomas
A1  - Sasaki, Kaname
A1  - Seefeldt, Patric
A1  - Spietz, Peter
A1  - Spröwitz, Tom
A1  - Sznajder, Maciej
A1  - Toth, Norbert
A1  - Ceriotti, Matteo
A1  - McInnes, Colin
A1  - Peloni, Alessandro
A1  - Biele, Jens
A1  - Krause, Christian
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Hercik, David
A1  - Lichtenheldt, Roy
A1  - Wolff, Friederike
A1  - Koncz, Alexander
A1  - Pelivan, Ivanka
A1  - Schmitz, Nicole
A1  - Boden, Ralf
A1  - Riemann, Johannes
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
A1  - Wejmo, Elisabet
A1  - Ziach, Christian
A1  - Mikschl, Tobias
A1  - Montenegro, Sergio
A1  - Ruffer, Michael
A1  - Cordero, Federico
A1  - Tardivel, Simon
T1  - Solar sails for planetary defense & high-energy missions
T2  - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
N2  - 20 years after the successful ground deployment test of a (20 m) 2 solar sail at DLR Cologne, and in the light of the upcoming U.S. NEAscout mission, we provide an overview of the progress made since in our mission and hardware design studies as well as the hardware built in the course of our solar sail technology development. We outline the most likely and most efficient routes to develop solar sails for useful missions in science and applications, based on our developed `now-term' and near-term hardware as well as the many practical and managerial lessons learned from the DLR-ESTEC Gossamer Roadmap. Mission types directly applicable to planetary defense include single and Multiple NEA Rendezvous ((M)NR) for precursor, monitoring and follow-up scenarios as well as sail-propelled head-on retrograde kinetic impactors (RKI) for mitigation. Other mission types such as the Displaced L1 (DL1) space weather advance warning and monitoring or Solar Polar Orbiter (SPO) types demonstrate the capability of near-term solar sails to achieve asteroid rendezvous in any kind of orbit, from Earth-coorbital to extremely inclined and even retrograde orbits. Some of these mission types such as SPO, (M)NR and RKI include separable payloads. For one-way access to the asteroid surface, nanolanders like MASCOT are an ideal match for solar sails in micro-spacecraft format, i.e. in launch configurations compatible with ESPA and ASAP secondary payload platforms. Larger landers similar to the JAXA-DLR study of a Jupiter Trojan asteroid lander for the OKEANOS mission can shuttle from the sail to the asteroids visited and enable multiple NEA sample-return missions. The high impact velocities and re-try capability achieved by the RKI mission type on a final orbit identical to the target asteroid's but retrograde to its motion enables small spacecraft size impactors to carry sufficient kinetic energy for deflection.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2019.8741900
N1  - AERO 2019; Big Sky; United States; 2 March 2019 through 9 March 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 21
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Grundmann, Jan Thimo
A1  - Lange, Caroline
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Grimm, Christian
A1  - Koch, Aaron
A1  - Ulamec, Stephan
T1  - Small Spacecraft in Planetary Defence Related Applications–Capabilities, Constraints, Challenges
T2  - IEEE Aerospace Conference
N2  - In this paper we present an overview of the characteristics and peculiarities of small spacecraft missions related to planetary defence applications. We provide a brief overview of small spacecraft missions to small solar system bodies. On this background we present recent missions and selected projects and related studies at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, that contribute to planetary defence related activities. These range from Earth orbit technology demonstrators to active science missions in interplanetary space. We provide a summary of experience from recently flown missions with DLR participation as well as a number of studies. These include PHILAE, the lander recently arrived on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko aboard ESA’s ROSETTA comet rendezvous mission, and the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, MASCOT, now underway to near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 aboard the Japanese sample-return probe HAYABUSA-2. We introduce the differences between the conventional methods employed in the design, integration and testing of large spacecraft and the new approaches developed by small spacecraft projects. We expect that the practical experience that can be gained from projects on extremely
compressed timelines or with high-intensity operation phases on a newly explored small solar system body can contribute significantly to the study, preparation and realization of future planetary defence related missions. One is AIDA (Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment), a joint effort of ESA,JHU/APL, NASA, OCA and DLR, combining JHU/APL’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) and ESA’s AIM (Asteroid Impact Monitor) spacecraft in a mission towards
near-Eath binary asteroid (65803) Didymos.
KW  - small spacecraft
KW  - planetary defence
KW  - asteroid lander
KW  - solar sail
KW  - flotilla missions
Y1  - 2015
N1  - 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 7.-13. Mar. 2015, Big Sky, Montana, USA.
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Mengali, Giovanni
A1  - Quarta, Alessandro A
A1  - Macdonald, Malcolm
A1  - McInnes, Colin R
T1  - Optical solar sail degradation modelling
T2  - 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing
N2  - We propose a simple parametric OSSD model that describes the variation of the sail film's optical coefficients with time, depending on the sail film's environmental history, i.e., the radiation dose. The primary intention of our model is not to describe the exact behavior of specific film-coating combinations in the real space environment, but to provide a more general parametric framework for describing the general optical degradation behavior of solar sails.
Y1  - 2007
N1  - 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing 27–29 June 2007, Herrsching, Germany
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Baader, Fabian
A1  - Reiswich, M.
A1  - Bartsch, M.
A1  - Keller, D.
A1  - Tiede, E.
A1  - Keck, G.
A1  - Demircian, A.
A1  - Friedrich, M.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Schüller, K.
A1  - Lehmann, R.
A1  - Chojetzki, R.
A1  - Durand, C.
A1  - Rapp, L.
A1  - Kowalski, Julia
A1  - Förstner, R.
T1  - VIPER - Student research on extraterrestrical ice penetration technology
T2  - Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Space Educational Activities
N2  - Recent analysis of scientific data from Cassini and earth-based observations gave evidence for a global ocean under a surrounding solid ice shell on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Images of Enceladus' South Pole showed several fissures in the ice shell with plumes constantly exhausting frozen water particles, building up the E-Ring, one of the outer rings of Saturn. In this southern region of Enceladus, the ice shell is considered to be as thin as 2 km, about an order of magnitude thinner than on the rest of the moon. Under the ice shell, there is a global ocean consisting of liquid water. Scientists are discussing different approaches the possibilities of taking samples of water, i.e. by melting through the ice using a melting probe. FH Aachen UAS developed a prototype of maneuverable melting probe which can navigate through the ice that has already been tested successfully in a terrestrial environment. This means no atmosphere and or ambient pressure, low ice temperatures of around 100 to 150K (near the South Pole) and a very low gravity of 0,114 m/s^2 or 1100 μg. Two of these influencing measures are about to be investigated at FH Aachen UAS in 2017, low ice temperature and low ambient pressure below the triple point of water. Low gravity cannot be easily simulated inside a large experiment chamber, though. Numerical simulations of the melting process at RWTH Aachen however are showing a gravity dependence of melting behavior. Considering this aspect, VIPER provides a link between large-scale experimental simulations at FH Aachen UAS and numerical simulations at RWTH Aachen. To analyze the melting process, about 90 seconds of experiment time in reduced gravity and low ambient pressure is provided by the REXUS rocket. In this time frame, the melting speed and contact force between ice and probes are measured, as well as heating power and a two-dimensional array of ice temperatures. Additionally, visual and infrared cameras are used to observe the melting process.
Y1  - 2018
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
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  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Leimena, W.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Linder, Peter
A1  - Porst, Dariusz
A1  - Kayser, Peter
A1  - Funke, O.
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
T1  - In-situ biological decontamination of an ice melting probe : [abstract]
N2  - The objective of our study was to investigate the efficacy of different in-situ decontamination protocols in the conditions of thermo-mechanical ice-melting.
KW  - Sonde
KW  - Dekontamination
KW  - Wasserstoffperoxid
KW  - Natriumhypochlorit
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Konstantinidis, K.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Ohndorf, A.
A1  - Dykta, P.
A1  - Voigt, K.
A1  - Förstner, R.
T1  - Enceladus explorer (ENEX): A lander mission to probe subglacial water pockets on Saturn's moon enceladus for life
T2  - 64th International Astronautical Congress 2013 (IAC 2013) : Beijing, China, 23 - 27 September 2013. (Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC ; 2)
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-1-62993-909-4
SP  - 1340
EP  - 1350
PB  - Curran
CY  - Red Hook, NY
ER  -