Abstract:Prospecting is a necessary pre-requisite of future asteroid mining ventures. It is generally assumed that inspection for the purpose of identifying the asteroid composition can be effectively accomplished from a distance through remote sensing. To be carried out in a timely and economically viable way, prospecting is best performed by devising trajectories such that a single spacecraft manages to fly by as many asteroid as possible, yet seeking to minimize a cost function that we assume to be coincident with p… Show more
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