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Capturing Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) in the Earth-Moon system is a potential method of future space exploration and resource utilization. In order to make the captured NEA easily rendezvoused by spacecrafts, it is expected to capture the asteroid in a low-energy and low-inclination orbit. Lunar flyby and Earth aerobraking have been proved to be effective energy-saving methods in asteroid retrieval missions. Based on the Earth aerobraking capture strategy, if a lunar flyby process is performed before the asteroid enters the atmosphere, the thermal ablation of the asteroid in the atmosphere is expected to be alleviated. This paper proposes a lunar flyby plus Earth aerobraking method to capture an NEA. Using Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) as the target orbit, the efficiency of three different capture strategies (direct capture strategy, Earth aerobraking capture strategy and lunar flyby plus Earth aerobraking capture strategy) are compared. Compared to the Earth aerobraking capture strategy, simulation results show that the main advantage of the lunar flyby plus Earth aerobraking capture strategy is that the mass loss ratio can be reduced (15 real asteroids are used as examples a

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Author

Yirui Wang; Mingtao Li

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)