Publication: Trajectory optimization for asteroid mining
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2017-10-16
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2017-10-16
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Near Earth Asteroids might become key in the future development of mining and space industry.
Their exploitation would give access to a huge amount of minerals and metals that could be used
to create an "in-space manufacturing industry" and that could be used also to support deep
space missions and stations through in situ resource utilization. However, a deep knowledge of
minearologic composition and dynamic distribution of these bodies would be required in order
to attain these achievements.
This work tries to shed light to the matters of what NEAs should be considered in a mining
project, what orbital parameters are going to in
uenced energetic cost required to reach them
and how transfer trajectories could be optimized. A total of twelves NEAs have been analysed
through four di erent methods, employing an straightforward resolution of Lambert's Problem
and genetic algorithms. Optimization of the previous trajectories have been studied through a
Patched Conics Method, solving it also making use of a direct approach and with NSGA-II.
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Asteroids, Mining and space industry, Near Earth Asteroids