NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID SURVEY MISSION CONCEPT USING SOLAR SAILING TECHNOLOGY

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of asteroid surveyrnmission enabled by advanced solar sailing technology. The study is focused notrnon the solar sail spacecraft itself but on its orbital dynamics to realize the missions.rnA novel NEA flyby survey mission with a light-weight solar sail spacecraftrnto increase the accessibility to NEAs located in the vicinity of the Earth’srnorbit is proposed. Numerical study suggests that our approach increase the opportunitiesrnin proximity to NEAs which have eccentric and inclined orbits.