Interplanetary Small-Satellite Missions: Ballistic Problems and Their Solutions
https://doi.org/10.17285/0869-7035.0077
Abstract
The past decade has been marked by an explosive growth in the number of missions with the use of small spacecraft weighing only about tens of kilograms, including CubeSats that are currently widely employed in various applications. For a scientific paper, it is no longer feasible to enumerate and properly analyze the accomplished missions as well as those under development and being planned: information changes so quickly that perhaps only websites with inline renovations can keep track of all the changes in this market. Near-Earth missions of CubeSats increasingly become the prerogative of engineers and production managers. Nowadays, even factories are built to mass-produce small spacecraft. However, interplanetary small-spacecraft missions stand apart because the technologies used to develop large spacecraft for interplanetary missions are not fully applicable to small spacecraft. The same is true of the bal-listic aspects of such missions. This is primarily due to the low energy capability of small spacecraft for maneuvering and transmitting signals over long distanc-es. The other equally important aspects are their self-sufficiency, navigation support, and radiation resistance in outer space. From the standpoint of the sci-entific novelty of the problems that spacecraft have to face and the fundamen-tals of ballistic implementation, it is interplanetary missions that attract atten-tion of researchers. This paper discusses the opportunities for interplanetary transportation of small spacecraft and formulates the problems that need to be solved in the near future.
About the Author
M. Yu Ovchinnikov
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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