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The authors here propose a mission scenario, aimed at close exploration of a Near-Earth Asteroid, exploiting low-ΔV resonant trajectories. These trajectories allow repeated fly-bys of a chosen target. A selection procedure, which has been used to find some interesting mission opportunities in the 2005-2015 time frame, is described and the corresponding detailed mission profiles are derived, using an indirect optimization method.
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Perozzi, E., Casalino, L., Colasurdo, G. et al. Resonant Fly-by Missions to Near Earth Asteroids. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 83, 49–62 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020122511548
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