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Heiligers, M.J. (author), Fernandez, Juan M. (author), Stohlman, Olive R. (author), Wilkie, W. Keats (author)This paper proposes the use of solar-sail technology currently under development at NASA Langley Research Center for a CubeSat rendezvous mission with asteroid 2016 HO3, a quasi-satellite of Earth. Time-optimal trajectories are sought for within a 2022–2023 launch window, starting from an assumed launcher ejection condition in the Earth-Moon...journal article 2019