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DASH: Distributed Asteroid Surveying Herd

Bachelor thesis (2024)

Authors

A. Battegazzore Aerospace Engineering
J.S. Calberto Muñoz Aerospace Engineering
S. Dixit Aerospace Engineering
T. Doozandeh Aerospace Engineering
T.L. Kramer Aerospace Engineering
K. LEE Aerospace Engineering
J.J. Lems Aerospace Engineering
A.L. Pastinante Aerospace Engineering
J.P. Rodríguez Gordon Aerospace Engineering
S.B.E. van Hulle Aerospace Engineering

Contributors

P.P. Sundaramoorthy Group De Breuker (mentor)
M. Noorafza Air Transport & Operations (mentor)
Stefano Casini Space Systems Egineering (mentor)
P. Perczynski (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Aerospace Engineering
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Published Date

28-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Aerospace Engineering

Abstract

The economic and holistic incentives of asteroid exploration have sparked an increased interest within the space industry. Missions like Hera and M-ARGO have taken steps towards said exploration, each with its own concept, but both using CubeSats due to the versatility they add. Thus, an interesting question arises on whether adopting a distributed, deep space system approach will reduce the costs and increase the versatility of the mission. To answer this query, the DASH mission takes Hera’s goals as its own to propose an innovative distributed framework that can match current asteroid exploration missions at significantly lower cost. As a result, this report deals with the design of the system and subsystem elements of the DASH mission, short for Distributed Asteroid Surveying Herd. Consequently, it is fitting to first analyse the current state of the market and then proceed with the mission-dependent elements.

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