About this Research Topic
Asteroids are debris left over from the birth of the solar system, preserving its original state when it formed. Some studies indicate that asteroids played a significant role in delivering water on Earth. By detecting and analyzing the composition and structure of asteroids, it can help us to understand how planets and life in our solar system originated and evolved. Asteroid detection is also an important way to explore the space science. It has become a key development direction in the field of deep space exploration in the 21st century.
Scientists have discovered thousands of near-Earth asteroids with potential impact threats, and asteroid impacts are thought to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. To save our planet from disaster, potentially threatening asteroids must be monitored to understand their orbital evolution mechanism. At the same time, with the continuous exploitation of coal, oil and natural gas and other resources on the earth, these non-renewable resources are facing the problem of exhaustion. Exploring asteroids that may contain valuable minerals, such as gold, platinum, and rare earth elements, and mining them, despite the challenges, could potentially provide some relief to the depletion of Earth's resources.
This topic mainly focuses on asteroid detection and space science applications, hoping to achieve a series of original results and promote the research and development of asteroid detection.
• Orbit design and optimization for asteroid detection;
• Navigation of asteroid detection;
• Orbit dynamics and control for asteroid detection;
• Precise landing control for asteroid detection;
• Analysis and study of environmental characteristics of asteroids;
• Space science applications of asteroid detection;
• Asteroid sampling and return;
• Electrical propulsion for asteroid detection;
• Near-earth asteroid detection and hazard assessment;
• Ongoing and planned missions and mission concepts such as NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2, etc.;
• Early history of the solar system and the processes that led to the formation of the planets, based on asteroid studies. Clues about the history of impacts, asteroid mining technology, etc.
Scientists have discovered thousands of near-Earth asteroids with potential impact threats, and asteroid impacts are thought to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. To save our planet from disaster, potentially threatening asteroids must be monitored to understand their orbital evolution mechanism. At the same time, with the continuous exploitation of coal, oil and natural gas and other resources on the earth, these non-renewable resources are facing the problem of exhaustion. Exploring asteroids that may contain valuable minerals, such as gold, platinum, and rare earth elements, and mining them, despite the challenges, could potentially provide some relief to the depletion of Earth's resources.
This topic mainly focuses on asteroid detection and space science applications, hoping to achieve a series of original results and promote the research and development of asteroid detection.
• Orbit design and optimization for asteroid detection;
• Navigation of asteroid detection;
• Orbit dynamics and control for asteroid detection;
• Precise landing control for asteroid detection;
• Analysis and study of environmental characteristics of asteroids;
• Space science applications of asteroid detection;
• Asteroid sampling and return;
• Electrical propulsion for asteroid detection;
• Near-earth asteroid detection and hazard assessment;
• Ongoing and planned missions and mission concepts such as NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2, etc.;
• Early history of the solar system and the processes that led to the formation of the planets, based on asteroid studies. Clues about the history of impacts, asteroid mining technology, etc.
Keywords: Asteroid detection, Orbit dynamics and control, Precise landing, Navigation of asteroid detection
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