If it gets the go-ahead, the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will be the first spacecraft to visit a binary asteroid system and ESA’s first mission to a small body since Rosetta landed on a comet. With its micro lander and accompanying flock of ...
...degree in Space System Engineering from Delft university and in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Ian Carnelli is an aerospace engineer managing the General Studies Programme, charged with the preparation of future ESA...
.... “Essential information will be missing following the DART impact – which is where Hera comes in,” explains Hera manager Ian Carnelli. “Hera’s close-up survey will give us the mass of Didymoon, the shape of the crater, as well as physical and...