Piazzi
Z.T. Angyal (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
K. den Hertog (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
A. Kasteel
S.J.F. Knoops (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
L. Losch (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
V.A. Lucas (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
B.K.W. Martens (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
A.B. de Roos (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
B.H.L. van den Abbeele (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
E.J.O. Schrama – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
V. Pallichadath – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
H. Lan – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
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Abstract
Piazzi is a mission to the 1989 UQ asteroid, with the goal of collecting a sample and returning it to Earth. This will be accomplished by sending a spacecraft to the asteroid, which will consist of three separate spacecraft. Firstly the orbiter, which houses the instruments needed to observe and map the asteroid, and the primary propulsion and communications systems. Then two spacecraft will detach from the orbiter, and each collect a sample in a distinct manner. One, ACSAL, will land on the asteroid, and collect a core sample using a drill. The other, SASH, will hover above the surface, and collect a regolith sample. Both ACSAL and SASH will return to Earth individually, shoot off a reentry capsule with the sample and burn up in the atmosphere themselves.