Design of an Electrically-Propelled Asteroid Rendezvous Probe Launched as a Secondary Payload
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper summarises a design study undertaken as a final year project for the author’s B.Eng in Aerospace Systems Engineering. A spacecraft design is outlined for a vehicle to perform a rendezvous with a near earth asteroid after being launched as a secondary payload into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The 380 kg (dry) spacecraft would use a bipropellant chemical propulsion system to manoeuvre in, and escape from Earth orbit. Interplanetary maneuvering would be accomplished with an ion propulsion system.
DOI: 10.26077/0y2c-b449
Author: Lorenz, Ralph
Institution: University of Southampton
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W104779399