[AR] Re: Cubesats orbital grenades ?
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:31:14 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jonathan Goff wrote:
If the only problem you're trying to solve is deorbit, then yes there's
a broader class of solutions. But if you want to enable intact servicing
as well, you need something capable of grappling a target...
And if you want examples of how you might grapple to an uncooperative and
possibly tumbling target, just look at some of the design concepts for the
ARM mini-asteroid/boulder grabber that people came up with over the year
or two in which ARM was a going project. Not a trivial problem but not an
insuperable one either, especially if you accept that the grabber might be
a one-shot expendable device.
Henry
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