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NASA Dawn Asteroid Mission Told to "Stand Back Up", Reinstated!
dvandorn
post Mar 28 2006, 07:58 AM
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Just 'cause I said I would... biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

Hopefully, though, this whole episode has made its point -- NASA isn't afraid to tell overbudget missions to stand down.

I just *really* wish we could get the magnetometer back on the beastie, though...

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Mariner9
post Mar 31 2006, 03:47 PM
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I remember in one of the earlier Discovery mission proposals I read about a mission similar to CONTOUR which would flyby multiple asteroids. It wouldn't seem all that cost effective to only fly by 2-3 asteroids, but I know that in the early days of DAWN they were suggesting that they could fly past as many as 10-12 targets on the way there. I always found that number as overly optimistic, Dawn will have enough on it's plate just getting there, so if they manage 1-2 extra flybys it would be impressive enough. Something I read recently suggested they were now using lower numbers whenever the topic came up.

But has anyone given any serious consideration to taking a Dawn type ion propelled spacecraft and using all of the delta-vee specifically for as many fly-bys as possible? I would think with a couple Earth, Venus, or Mars flybys thrown in to make the orbit more elipitcal, they could potentially survey a very large number of targets.

It occurs to me that the instrumentation on DAWN might not be the best for fast flybys, but with the right package this might yield a lot more targets and results than a simple ballistic probe like CONTOUR. And that might make it worth it.

All of this is assuming that the Discovery office at NASA isn't really gun shy about ion drive missions right now.
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post Mar 31 2006, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Mar 31 2006, 07:47 AM) *
But has anyone given any serious consideration to taking a Dawn type ion propelled spacecraft and using all of the delta-vee specifically for as many fly-bys as possible? I would think with a couple Earth, Venus, or Mars flybys thrown in to make the orbit more elipitcal, they could potentially survey a very large number of targets.


Yeah, if you pick targets according to trajectories that net the highest sheer number, without any particular targets offering constraints, I would expect some fantastic possibilities.

Thinking outside the box, I wonder about using a Jupiter gravity assist to create a retrograde orbit that could be later circularized or near-circularized with propulsion and/or Earth gravity assists. It seems to me that flying backwards through the asteroid belt would very much increase the number of flyby possibilities, the same way that you would pass close to a LOT more cars on the highway driving 70 mph against traffic than you would driving 90 mph with traffic. In fact, this would mean no propellant would be needed to catch up to asteroids, or to lag behind them, and all of the propellant (once you achieve that orbit) could be used in "lateral" motion to create flybys. With 10,000 targets, and a full lap relative to the field taking place in about 2.5 years, the craft in retrograde orbit would fly by the radial vector of another asteroid every 2.5 hours! Assuming the asteroid belt is 1 AU wide, totally planar and with uniform distribution of the asteroids within it, the craft would fly within 0.001 AU (149,000 km) of an asteroid about three times a year even if you did nothing to aim for any targets! I would think that a campaign of lateral manuevers aiming for targets well in advance could lead to a mission ultimately achieving hundreds of flybys in a main mission of ten years.

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- dvandorn   NASA Dawn Asteroid Mission Told to "Stand Back Up"   Mar 28 2006, 07:58 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Does anyone know how much it would cost to reinsta...   Mar 28 2006, 03:32 PM
|- - Marz   yee haw!! Has the mission timeline be...   Mar 28 2006, 04:15 PM
- - J.J.   ^ The launch has been pushed back to July 2007. T...   Mar 28 2006, 04:27 PM
|- - Marz   QUOTE (J.J. @ Mar 28 2006, 10:27 AM) ^ Th...   Mar 28 2006, 10:01 PM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (Marz @ Mar 28 2006, 02:01 PM) 3. a...   Mar 28 2006, 10:39 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (Marz @ Mar 28 2006, 10:01 PM) 3. a...   Mar 28 2006, 10:55 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (Marz @ Mar 28 2006, 03:01 PM) Oh, ...   Mar 29 2006, 04:08 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 29 2006, 04:08...   Mar 29 2006, 07:04 PM
||- - SFJCody   Magnetometer or not, 2015 will put a significant c...   Mar 29 2006, 08:01 PM
||- - The Messenger   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 29 2006, 12:04...   Mar 29 2006, 08:05 PM
||- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 29 2006, 08:05...   Mar 29 2006, 08:08 PM
||- - SFJCody   QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 29 2006, 09:05...   Mar 29 2006, 08:10 PM
|- - BruceMoomaw   QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 29 2006, 04:08...   Apr 1 2006, 12:48 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 1 2006, 12:48 AM...   Apr 1 2006, 01:36 AM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 1 2006, 12:48 AM...   Apr 2 2006, 04:53 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 28 2006, 07:58 AM) ...   Mar 28 2006, 04:49 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 28 2006, 05:49...   Mar 28 2006, 04:58 PM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Mar 28 2006, 08:58 AM) I...   Mar 28 2006, 05:58 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 28 2006, 08:49...   Mar 28 2006, 05:45 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 28 2006, 05:45 P...   Mar 28 2006, 06:02 PM
- - gpurcell   http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/technology.asp S...   Mar 28 2006, 05:40 PM
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|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Myran @ Mar 30 2006, 10:36 AM) But...   Mar 30 2006, 11:39 PM
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|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Mar 31 2006, 07:47 AM) ...   Mar 31 2006, 05:47 PM
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|- - JRehling   QUOTE (David @ Mar 31 2006, 04:06 PM) Not...   Apr 1 2006, 12:32 AM
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