TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Minimum Transfer Times for Nonperfectly Reflecting Solar Sailcraft
JF  - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 41 (2004), H. 4
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 0022-4650
N1  - 2. ISSN: 1533-6794
SP  - 693
EP  - 695
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Campen, R.
A1  - Kowalski, Julia
A1  - Lyons, W.B.
A1  - Tulaczyk, S.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Pettit, E.
A1  - Welch, K. A.
A1  - Mikucki, J.A.
T1  - Microbial diversity of an Antarctic subglacial community and high‐resolution replicate sampling inform hydrological connectivity in a polar desert
JF  - Environmental Microbiology
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14607
SN  - 1462-2920
IS  - accepted article
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
A1  - Loeb, H. W.
A1  - Schartner, Karl-Heinz
T1  - Main Belt Asteroid Sample Return Mission Using Solar Electric Propulsion
JF  - Acta Astronautica. 63 (2008), H. 1-4
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 0094-5765
N1  - International Astronautical Federation Congress <58, 2007, Hyderabad> ; International Astronautical Congress <58, 2007, Hyderabad> ; IAC-07-A3.5.07
SP  - 91
EP  - 101
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization and Interplanetary Mission Analysis Using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
JF  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2004 : Dresden, 20. bis 23. September 2004, Motto: Luft- und Raumfahrt - Brücke für eine wissensbasierte Gesellschaft / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V. (DGLR). [Red.: Peter Brandt (verantwortlich)]. - Bd. 2. - (Jahrbuch ... der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
Y1  - 2004
N1  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrt-Kongress <2004, Dresden> ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth ; DGLR-2004-116
SP  - 917
EP  - 926
CY  - Bonn
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Carnelli, I.
A1  - Vasile, M.
T1  - Low-Thrust Gravity Assist Trajectory Optimization Using Evolutionary Neurocontrollers / I. Carnelli ; B. Dachwald ; M. Vasile ...
JF  - Astrodynamics 2005 : proceedings of the AAS/AIAA astrodynamics conference held August 7 - 11, 2005, South Lake Tahoe, California / ed. by Bobby G. Williams. - Pt. 3. - (Advances in the astronautical sciences ; 123,3)
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0-87703-527-X
N1  - Astrodynamics Conference <2005, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.> ; American Astronautical Society ; Number: AAS-05-374
SP  - 1911
EP  - 1928
PB  - Univelt
CY  - San Diego, Calif.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Ulamec, Stephan
A1  - Postberg, Frank
A1  - Sohl, Frank
A1  - Vera, Jean-Pierre de
A1  - Christoph, Waldmann
A1  - Lorenz, Ralph D.
A1  - Hellard, Hugo
A1  - Biele, Jens
A1  - Rettberg, Petra
T1  - Key technologies and instrumentation for subsurface exploration of ocean worlds
JF  - Space Science Reviews
N2  - In this chapter, the key technologies and the instrumentation required for the subsurface exploration of ocean worlds are discussed. The focus is laid on Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus because they have the highest potential for such missions in the near future. The exploration of their oceans requires landing on the surface, penetrating the thick ice shell with an ice-penetrating probe, and probably diving with an underwater vehicle through dozens of kilometers of water to the ocean floor, to have the chance to find life, if it exists. Technologically, such missions are extremely challenging. The required key technologies include power generation, communications, pressure resistance, radiation hardness, corrosion protection, navigation, miniaturization, autonomy, and sterilization and cleaning. Simpler mission concepts involve impactors and penetrators or – in the case of Enceladus – plume-fly-through missions.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00707-5
SN  - 1572-9672
N1  - Corresponding author: Bernd Dachwald
VL  - 216
IS  - Art. 83
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Andreas M.
A1  - Eubanks, T. Marshall
A1  - Lingam, Manasvi
A1  - Hibberd, Adam
A1  - Fries, Dan
A1  - Schneider, Jean
A1  - Kervella, Pierre
A1  - Kennedy, Robert
A1  - Perakis, Nikolaos
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Interstellar now! Missions to explore nearby interstellar objects
JF  - Advances in Space Research
N2  - The recently discovered first hyperbolic objects passing through the Solar System, 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, have raised the question about near term missions to Interstellar Objects. In situ spacecraft exploration of these objects will allow the direct determination of both their structure and their chemical and isotopic composition, enabling an entirely new way of studying small bodies from outside our solar system. In this paper, we map various Interstellar Object classes to mission types, demonstrating that missions to a range of Interstellar Object classes are feasible, using existing or near-term technology. We describe flyby, rendezvous and sample return missions to interstellar objects, showing various ways to explore these bodies characterizing their surface, dynamics, structure and composition. Their direct exploration will constrain their formation and history, situating them within the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. These mission types also provide the opportunity to explore solar system bodies and perform measurements in the far outer solar system.
KW  - Interstellar objects
KW  - Trajectories
KW  - Missions
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.06.052
SN  - 0273-1177
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
SP  - 402
EP  - 414
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Andreas M.
A1  - Eubanks, T. Marshall
A1  - Hibberd, Adam
A1  - Fries, Dan
A1  - Schneider, Jean
A1  - Lingam, Manasvi
A1  - Kennedy, Robert
A1  - Perakis, Nikolaos
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Kervella, Pierre
T1  - Interstellar Now! Missions to and sample returns from nearby interstellar objects
N2  - The recently discovered first high velocity hyperbolic objects passing through the Solar System, 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, have raised the question about near term missions to Interstellar Objects. In situ spacecraft exploration of these objects will allow the direct determination of both their structure and their chemical and isotopic composition, enabling an entirely new way of studying small bodies from outside our solar system. In this paper, we map various Interstellar Object classes to mission types, demonstrating that missions to a range of Interstellar Object classes are feasible, using existing or near-term technology. We describe flyby, rendezvous and sample return missions to interstellar objects, showing various ways to explore these bodies characterizing their surface, dynamics, structure and composition. Interstellar objects likely formed very far from the solar system in both time and space; their direct exploration will constrain their formation and history, situating them within the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. These mission types also provide the opportunity to explore solar system bodies and perform measurements in the far outer solar system.
Y1  - 2020
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Loeb, Horst Wolfgang
A1  - Schartner, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Ohndorf, Andreas
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
T1  - Interstellar heliopause probe
JF  - Труды МАИ
N2  - There is common agreement within the scientific community that in order to understand our local galactic environment it will be necessary to send a spacecraft into the region beyond the solar wind termination shock. Considering distances of 200 AU for a new mission, one needs a spacecraft traveling at a speed of close to 10 AU/yr in order to keep the mission duration in the range of less than 25 yrs, a transfer time postulated by European Space Agency (ESA). Two propulsion options for the mission have been proposed and discussed so far: the solar sail propulsion and the ballistic/radioisotope-electric propulsion (REP). As a further alternative, we here investigate a combination of solar-electric propulsion (SEP) and REP. The SEP stage consists of six 22-cms diameter RIT-22 ion thrusters working with a high specific impulse of 7377 s corresponding to a positive grid voltage of 5 kV. Solar power of 53 kW at begin of mission (BOM) is provided by a lightweight solar array.
Y1  - 2012
IS  - 60
SP  - 2
EP  - 2
PB  - Moskauer Staatliches Luftfahrtinstitut (МАИ)
CY  - Moskau
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Interplanetary Mission Analysis for Non-Perfectly Reflecting Solar Sailcraft Using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
JF  - Astrodynamics 2003 : proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference held August 3 - 7, 2003, Big Sky, Montana / ed. by Jean de Lafontaine. - Pt. 2. - (Advances in the astronautical sciences ; 116,2)
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 0-87703-509-1
N1  - Astrodynamics Conference <2003, Big Sky, Mont.> ; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics <Reston, Va.> ; AAS-03-579
SP  - 1247
EP  - 1262
PB  - Univelt
CY  - San Diego, Calif.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - McDonald, Malcolm
A1  - McInnes, Colin R.
A1  - Mengali, Giovanni
T1  - Impact of Optical Degradation on Solar Sail Mission Performance
JF  - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 44 (2007), H. 4
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 0022-4650
N1  - 2. ISSN: 1533-6794
SP  - 740
EP  - 749
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Mikucki, Jill
A1  - Tulaczyk, Slawek
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Espe, Clemens
A1  - Feldmann, Marco
A1  - Francke, Gero
A1  - Kowalski, Julia
A1  - Xu, Changsheng
T1  - IceMole : A maneuverable probe for clean in situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial aquatic ecosystems
JF  - Annals of Glaciology
N2  - There is significant interest in sampling subglacial environments for geobiological studies, but they are difficult to access. Existing ice-drilling technologies make it cumbersome to maintain microbiologically clean access for sample acquisition and environmental stewardship of potentially fragile subglacial aquatic ecosystems. The IceMole is a maneuverable subsurface ice probe for clean in situ analysis and sampling of glacial ice and subglacial materials. The design is based on the novel concept of combining melting and mechanical propulsion. It can change melting direction by differential heating of the melting head and optional side-wall heaters. The first two prototypes were successfully tested between 2010 and 2012 on glaciers in Switzerland and Iceland. They demonstrated downward, horizontal and upward melting, as well as curve driving and dirt layer penetration. A more advanced probe is currently under development as part of the Enceladus Explorer (EnEx) project. It offers systems for obstacle avoidance, target detection, and navigation in ice. For the EnEx-IceMole, we will pay particular attention to clean protocols for the sampling of subglacial materials for biogeochemical analysis. We plan to use this probe for clean access into a unique subglacial aquatic environment at Blood Falls, Antarctica, with return of a subglacial brine sample.
KW  - Antarctic Glaciology
KW  - Extraterrestrial Glaciology
KW  - Glaciological instruments and methods
KW  - Subclacial exploration
KW  - Subglacial lakes
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG65A004
SN  - 1727-5644
VL  - 55
IS  - 65
SP  - 14
EP  - 22
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Leipold, M.
A1  - Fichtner, H.
T1  - Heliopause Explorer - A Sailcraft Mission to the Outer Boundaries of the Solar System / M. Leipold ; H. Fichtner ; B. Heber  ... B. Dachwald ...
JF  - Proceedings of the Fifth IAA International Conference on Low Cost Planetary Missions : 24 - 26 September 2003, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands / [comp. by R. A. Harris]
Y1  - 2003
SN  - 92-9092-853-0
N1  - International Conference on Low Cost Planetary Missions <5, 2003, Noordwijk> ; International Academy of Astronautics ; European Space Research and Technology Centre
SP  - 367
EP  - 375
PB  - ESA
CY  - Noordwijk
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leipold, M.
A1  - Fichtner, H.
A1  - Heber, B.
A1  - Groepper, P.
A1  - Lascar, S.
A1  - Burger, F.
A1  - Eiden, M.
A1  - Niederstadt, T.
A1  - Sickinger, C.
A1  - Herbeck, L.
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
T1  - Heliopause Explorer - A Sailcraft Mission to the Outer Boundaries of the Solar System
JF  - Acta Astronautica. 59 (2006), H. 8-11
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0094-5765
N1  - International Conference on Low Cost Planetary Missions <5, 2003, Noordwijk> ; Selected Proceedings
SP  - 786
EP  - 796
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - MacDonald, Malcolm
A1  - McInnes, Colin R.
T1  - Heliocentric Solar Sail Orbit Transfers with Locally Optimal Control Laws / Malcolm Macdonald ; Colin McInnes ; Bernd Dachwald
JF  - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 44 (2007), H. 1
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 0022-4650
SP  - 273
EP  - 276
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Turyshev, Slava G.
A1  - Dittus, H.
A1  - Shao, M. [u.a.]
T1  - Fundamental Physics with the Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity / S.G. Turyshev ;  H. Dittus ; M. Shao ... B.Dachwald ...
JF  - Proceedings of the 39th ESLAB Symposium "Trends in Space Science and Cosmic Vision 2020" : 19 - 21 April 2005, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands / European Space Agency. [Comp. by: F. Favata ...] . - (ESA SP ; 588)
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 9290928999
N1  - ISBN der CD-ROM-Ausg.: 9290928999 ; Symposium Trends in Space Science and Cosmic Vision 2020 <2005, Noordwijk> ; ESLAB symposium <39, 2005, Noordwijk> ; European Space Laboratory
SP  - 8
EP  - 11
PB  - ESA Publ. Div.
CY  - Noordwijk
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scholz, A.
A1  - Ley, Wilfried
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Miau, J. J.
A1  - Juang, J. C.
T1  - Flight results of the COMPASS-1 picosatellite mission
JF  - Acta Astronautica. 67 (2010), H. 9-10
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 0094-5765
SP  - 1289
EP  - 1298
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Schmidt, Tanja D.
A1  - Seboldt, Wolfgang
A1  - Auweter-Kurtz, 
T1  - Flight Opportunities from Mars to Earth for Piloted Missions Using Continuous Thrust Propulsion / Schmidt, Tanja D. ; Dachwald, Bernd ; Seboldt, Wolfgang ; Auweter-Kurtz, Monika
Y1  - 2003
N1  - 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
20-23 July 2003, Huntsville, Alabama ; AIAA 2003-4573
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - -
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baader, Fabian
A1  - Boxberg, Marc S.
A1  - Chen, Qian
A1  - Förstner, Roger
A1  - Kowalski, Julia
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
T1  - Field-test performance of an ice-melting probe in a terrestrial analogue environment
JF  - Icarus
N2  - Melting probes are a proven tool for the exploration of thick ice layers and clean sampling of subglacial water on Earth. Their compact size and ease of operation also make them a key technology for the future exploration of icy moons in our Solar System, most prominently Europa and Enceladus. For both mission planning and hardware engineering, metrics such as efficiency and expected performance in terms of achievable speed, power requirements, and necessary heating power have to be known.

Theoretical studies aim at describing thermal losses on the one hand, while laboratory experiments and field tests allow an empirical investigation of the true performance on the other hand. To investigate the practical value of a performance model for the operational performance in extraterrestrial environments, we first contrast measured data from terrestrial field tests on temperate and polythermal glaciers with results from basic heat loss models and a melt trajectory model. For this purpose, we propose conventions for the determination of two different efficiencies that can be applied to both measured data and models. One definition of efficiency is related to the melting head only, while the other definition considers the melting probe as a whole. We also present methods to combine several sources of heat loss for probes with a circular cross-section, and to translate the geometry of probes with a non-circular cross-section to analyse them in the same way. The models were selected in a way that minimizes the need to make assumptions about unknown parameters of the probe or the ice environment.

The results indicate that currently used models do not yet reliably reproduce the performance of a probe under realistic conditions. Melting velocities and efficiencies are constantly overestimated by 15 to 50 % in the models, but qualitatively agree with the field test data. Hence, losses are observed, that are not yet covered and quantified by the available loss models. We find that the deviation increases with decreasing ice temperature. We suspect that this mismatch is mainly due to the too restrictive idealization of the probe model and the fact that the probe was not operated in an efficiency-optimized manner during the field tests. With respect to space mission engineering, we find that performance and efficiency models must be used with caution in unknown ice environments, as various ice parameters have a significant effect on the melting process. Some of these are difficult to estimate from afar.
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115852
N1  - Forschungsdaten hierzu: "Performance data of an ice-melting probe from field tests in two different ice environments" (https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10890)
IS  - 409
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leimena, W.
A1  - Artmann, Gerhard
A1  - Dachwald, Bernd
A1  - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül
A1  - Gossmann, Matthias
A1  - Digel, Ilya
T1  - Feasibility of an in-situ microbial decontamination of an ice-melting probe
JF  - Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal. 12 (2010), H. 2
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 1562-3920
SP  - 145
EP  - 150
ER  -