Space Operations: Contributions from the Global Community

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High-fidelity trajectory design to flyby near-Earth asteroids using CubeSats

“…In 2018, the first CubeSat mission beyond LEO was launched, MarCO, along NASA's InSight mission to flyby Mars [1,2]. Several other interplanetary CubeSat missions are planned for the early 2020s to explore cislunar space, observe and land on the Moon, and flyby asteroids [3,4].…”

“…Provided their limited propulsive capability, interplanetary CubeSat missions generally leverage a piggyback opportunity to reach their destinations beyond LEO. Relevant mission examples include those of the 6U CubeSats to explore cislunar space, the Moon, and a near-Earth asteroid as secondary payloads to NASA's SLS [3], 6U CubeSats to complement the scientific objectives of ESA's Hera mission at the Didymos system [4], or the <10-kg asteroid landers that piggybacked on board JAXA's Hayabusa-2 mission to Ryugu [5].…”