Asteroid Impact Avoidance
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Astronautics & Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 355
Special Issue Editors
Interests: planetary defense; astrodynamics; trajectory optimization; mission analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) impacts pose a significant threat to life on Earth. Planetary defense is thus essential for the survival of human civilization and represents a critical effort in building a community with a shared future for all mankind. In 2022, the successful implementation of the DART mission marked the beginning of a new era in planetary defense. In the future, the international community, including China, will launch more planetary defense missions, including reconnaissance missions, orbit deflection and disruption missions, and space-based survey missions.
This Special Issue of Aerospace aims to cover recent research efforts on asteroid impact avoidance, including, but not limited to, ground- and space-based surveys, astrometric follow-up, radar tracking, photometry and spectroscopy, orbit evolution, orbit deflection and disruption technologies, initial and precise orbit determination, impact risk assessment, and impact hazards evaluation. Contributions on concepts and mission analyses of future planetary defense missions are welcome. Given the relevance between space debris removal and asteroid deflection techniques, submissions related to space debris modeling, mitigation, and remediation will also be considered.
The editor of this Special Issue invites authors to submit papers addressing the challenges in asteroid impact avoidance to accelerate the progress of planetary defense.
Finally, I would like to thank Yirui Wang and Kaiduo Wang for their valuable works in assisting me with this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Mingtao Li
Prof. Dr. Qingbo Gan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- near-earth asteroids
- planetary defense
- sky survey
- asteroid characterization
- orbit deflection
- asteroid disruption
- orbit determination
- risk assessment
- hazards evaluation
- space debris modeling, mitigation, and remediation
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