... near-Earth asteroids), planetary defence efforts have not risen to the level, or the budgets, of having dedicated spacecraft missions. The most immediately relevant objects for planetary defence are asteroids of an intermediate scale, ones on the...
... missions to perform deorbiting manoeuvres, and hence self-deorbiting is often not possible. As such, ADR by means of remover spacecraft seems to be inevitable. In the net removal method a net is deployed towards the target which is captured and then...
... life?’ The JUICE payload consists of 10 state-of-the-art instruments plus one experiment that uses the spacecraft telecommunication system with ground-based telescopes. This payload, summarised in Table 1, is capable of addressing all of the mission...
... that can run on any nanosatellite regardless of the underlying hardware. It is also possible to hide the complexity of the spacecraft, for instance, via the low-level interfaces to the various on-board devices by providing high-level interfaces...