Asteroids: Prospective Energy and Material Resources

Book Overview

Asteroids close-up: what we have learned from twenty years of space exploration.- Trojan asteroids in the inner Solar System.- Orbital and dynamical characteristics of small bodies in the region of inner planets.- Prospecting Asteroid Resources.- What's out there? Asteroid models for target selection and mission planning.- Earth's Temporarily-Captured Natural satellites - The First Step Towards Utilization of Asteroid Resources.- Human missions to NEO's - A system perspective.- Designing robots for gravity-independent locomotion.- Bio-inspired landing approaches and their potential use on extraterrestrial bodies.- Electric Power System Options for Robotic Miners.- Rubble-pile Near Earth Objects: Insights from Granular Physics.- Asteroids: Anchoring and Sample Acquisition Approaches in Support of Science, Exploration, and In Situ Resource Utilization.- Closed-Cycle Pneumatics for Asteroid Regolith Mining.- Extracting Asteroidal Mass for Robotic Construction.- Curing of construction composite materials on asteroids.- Architecture for an Asteroid-Mining Spacecraft.- Near Earth Asteroid - Prospection, Orbit Modification, Mining and Habitation.- Available asteroid resources in the Earth's neighborhood.- Asteroid Capture.- Change the Asteroid Trajectory.- Opportunities for Asteroid Retrieval Missions.- Shaped Metal Earth-delivery System.- Artificial gravitation on Asteroids.- Making asteroids habitable.- Usage of Asteroid Resources for Space-based Geo-engineering.- Using asteroid for Launch/Landing, Change of Trajectory and Acceleration of Space Ships.- Observation of asteroids for searching extraterrestrial artifacts.- The Case for Asteroids: Commercial Concerns and Considerations.- Legal Considerations on Asteroid Exploitation and Deflection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662521768
• ISBN13: 9783662521762
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 689 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"