Zachary Armagost >> Adam Johnson>>Jake Lampenfield Ramon Morales << Galen I.

Stuski >> John Perla

Design a structure to successfully capture a predetermined near Earth asteroid Develop methods and technology to enable implementation for similar missions

Further scientific understanding of celestial bodies Examine elemental compositions of near Earth asteroids Extract resources for scientific data

Number

Event

Estimated Date

I II

Launch Payload Separation

June 2018 June 2018

III IV

Earth Orbit Lunar Gravity Assist

June 2018 July 2018

V VI

Heliocentric Orbit Thrust into Asteroids Orbital Plane

July 2018 August 2018

VII

Phase Orbit to Approach Asteroid Observe Asteroid

August 2019

VIII

August 2020

IX X

Capture Asteroid Phase Orbit back to Earth

October 2020 November 2020

XI

Transfer to Low Earth Orbit Transfer to Lunar Orbit

February 2022

XII

March 2022

XIII

Place Asteroid into Lunar Orbit

April 2022

Need to lift approx. 45000 kg Primary rocket is Falcon Heavy May need to redesign payload fairing

4 Hall Effect Thrusters

(Only 2 firing at once at maximum power, total of 1900 mN Thrust MAX)

Xenon Gas Main Propellent

Vernier Thrusters or Cold Gas Thrusters Attitude Control Propellants
Gaseous Nitrogen cold gas Monomethyl-hydrazine, oxidizer: nitrogen tetroxide, helium gas pressurization system.

 Mission Control will be at JPL in Pasadena, California Deep Space Network to receive signals from satellite Regularly check position and attitude

 3 antennas
1 X-band Frequency 2 K-band Frequency

Error Detection-Correction code Need to complete Link Budget for antennas

 Bus architecture Radiation Hardness, Performance 3 Honeywell RH32

 MANS & Earth and Star Sensing Sun Sensors Laser Doppler Velocimetry A system of Moveable Mass

2 Solar Arrays
Power stored in Li-ion batteries

Hughson White Paint A-276-1036

(Ambient temperature inside the spacecraft at roughly -24C)

Diphasic loop implemented as cooling system.

(Coolant that will utilized will be ammonia due to its properties.)

Heat sensors placed on the onboard computers

Analyzing instruments Claw capturing mechanism Asteroid 2009 BD

Asteroid retrieval is a feasible mission Our design will allow for a successful capture of an asteroid This work can be used in the future to help further research asteroids