DASH: Distributed Asteroid Surveying Herd

Bachelor Thesis (2024)
Author(s)

A. Battegazzore (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

J.S. Calberto Muñoz (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

S. Dixit (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

T. Doozandeh (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

T.L. Kramer (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

K. LEE (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

J.J. Lems (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

A.L. Pastinante (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

J.P. Rodríguez Gordon (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

S.B.E. van Hulle (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Contributor(s)

Prem Sundaramoorthy – Mentor (TU Delft - Group De Breuker)

M. Noorafza – Mentor (TU Delft - Air Transport & Operations)

Stefano Casini – Mentor (TU Delft - Space Systems Egineering)

P. Perczynski – Graduation committee member

Faculty
Aerospace Engineering
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Graduation Date
28-06-2024
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Project
AE3200 - Design Synthesis Exercise
Programme
Aerospace Engineering
Faculty
Aerospace Engineering
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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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