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CRADLE

Collecting Asteroid Orbiting Samples

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The Project

The CRADLE project is funded by the European Union under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, as part of the Horizon2020 programme. The project aims at enabling future mission concepts for asteroids exploration and exploitation. We study the dynamics of the ejecta around the asteroids after an impact and we aim to devise mission strategies for novel mission architectures. Can we safely collect particles orbiting around a small body? What is the best strategy? Can we design an instrument to collect them? Find out more…

NEWS

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A new Icarus paper on modelling asteroid ejecta clouds
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The new paper on modelling asteroid ejecta clouds published in Icarus by Mirko Trisolini, Camilla Colombo and Yuichi Tsuda is out! In this work, we propose a new statistical formulation ...
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New paper about asteroid sample collection in Acta Astronautica
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We have published a new original paper about asteroid sample collection missions in Acta Astronautica. This work shows an in-depth analysis to find the best targets for in-orbit sample collection ...
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Conference
CRADLE at the 2nd International Stardust Conference
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Mirko Trisolini presented his latest work on the project CRADLE at the 2nd International Stardust Conference. The work shows how the particles ejected after an impact move around the asteroids ...
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PUBLICATIONS

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Journal of Space Safety Engineering paper on HEO spacecraft disposal and demise is out!
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The disposal and demise of spacecraft in Highly Elliptical Orbits (HEO) is studied in the latest paper in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering by our student Christian Fusaro, supervised ...
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Advances in Space Research paper on GEO satellites entry is out!
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If you are interested in understanding the mechanism behind the GEO satellites entry and the risk these satellites pose for people and properties on the ground, check out our latest ...
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Ejecta analysis of an asteroid impact event
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Check out the latest presentation about the CRADLE Project, “Ejecta analysis for an asteroid impact event in the perturbed circular restricted three-body problem”, at the 31stWorkshop on JAXA Astrodynamics Symposium ...

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