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- Title
Study of Small Bodies of the Solar System: Odyssey-Asteroids Project.
- Authors
Slyuta, E. N.; Shakhanov, A. E.; El'nikov, R. V.
- Abstract
The paper discusses priority scientific tasks related to the study of small bodies in the Solar System, identifies the most promising objects for investigation from a spacecraft on a flyby trajectory and the sample return mission, and develops proposals for the preliminary composition of scientific instruments for remote asteroid research methods. A long-term and phased Russian scientific program for studying small Solar System bodies using spacecraft with electric propulsion has been proposed. The project is designed in such a way as to explore the largest number of scientifically interesting asteroids using a smaller number of spacecraft. A design concept for a small spacecraft to investigate near-Earth asteroids on a flyby trajectory and a main spacecraft for studying metallic asteroids in the Main Belt and sample sample return has been developed. A ballistic analysis of the flyby of five near-Earth asteroids and three metallic asteroids in the Main Belt is presented, as well as a ballistic analysis of the sample return mission from a Main Belt asteroid. The option of sample return using the nuclear tug Zevs is also considered.
- Subjects
SMALL solar system bodies; ASTEROIDS; NEAR-earth asteroids; MICROSPACECRAFT; SCIENTIFIC apparatus &; instruments; ELECTRIC propulsion
- Publication
Solar System Research, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 6, p556
- ISSN
0038-0946
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0038094623060072