Campaign-level off-Earth mining design and optimisation
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Introduction
Campaign level asteroid mining refers to the collection of scheduled missions, which are performed by one or multiple spacecraft, to explore and mine on one or multiple targets, and finally deliver the products to customers/space depots in different locations. Asteroid mining campaign design should consider different aspects of space mining; it needs to make decisions on overall strategies supported by mission-level details such as architecture, space/launch vehicle design, mining activity scheduling, logistics, economics, etc.
The work is presented at 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum.
Related Publications
Xie, R., Saydam, S. and Dempster, A.G., 2022. A framework for campaign level asteroid mining pre-feasibility study. AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition.(Accepted)