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Mission Analysis For the Ion Beam Deflection of Fictitious Asteroid 2015PDC

A realistic mission scenario for the deflection of fictitious asteroid 2015PDC is investigated that makes use of the ion beam shepherd concept as primary deflection technique. The article deals with the design of a low thrust rendezvous trajectory to the asteroid, the estimation of the propagated covariance ellipsoid and the outcome of a slow-push deflection starting from three worst case scenarios (impacts in New Delhi, Dhaka and Teheran). Displacing the impact point towards very low populated areas, as opposed to full deflection, is found to be the simplest and most effective mitigation approach. Mission design, technical and political aspects are discussed.

preprint2015arXivOpen access

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