AEGIS: Italy’s Step Toward the Future of NEA Robotic Exploration - Rendezvous, Landing, and In-Situ Analysis
A. Morselli, E. Valant, A Abruscato, L. Deva et autres
AEGIS is an ASI-funded Phase A mission concept for robotic exploration of a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), developed by the AENEAS consortium.The mission targets asteroid 2002 AW, a primitive B-type potentially hazardous binary asteroid (230-380 m diameter), for rendezvous, proximity characterisation, controlled landing, …