26 June 2009

Paper and Presentation on Foresight Asteroid Mission (from 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference, 27 - 30 April 2009, Granada, Spain).

During the 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference, SpaceWorks Commercial President A.C. Charania presented the Foresight Mission, a near Earth asteroid radio beacon mission design. The Foresight spacecraft is a concept design for a radio tagging mission to Near Earth Object (NEO) Apophis. Foresight won 1st place overall in the 2007 Apophis Mission Design Competition sponsored by The Planetary Society (TPS). The paper and presentation are available here:

Foresight: Designing a Radio Transponder Mission to Near Earth Asteroid Apophis Author: Charania, A., Olds, J. R., Koenig, J. Published: 28 April 2009 Abstract (HTML) Paper (PDF) Presentation (PDF)

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