[HTML][HTML] A review of nuclear electric fission space reactor technologies for achieving high-power output and operating with HALEU fuel

A Peakman, B Lindley - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Considerable attention is currently directed towards space nuclear reactor systems with
significantly higher power outputs, catering to applications like nuclear electric propulsion …

Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence

RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Although no known asteroid poses a threat to Earth for at least the next century, the
catalogue of near-Earth asteroids is incomplete for objects whose impacts would produce …

Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos

AF Cheng, HF Agrusa, BW Barbee, AJ Meyer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic
impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23: 14 …

Orbital period change of Dimorphos due to the DART kinetic impact

CA Thomas, SP Naidu, P Scheirich, NA Moskovitz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed
the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the …

Physical properties of asteroid Dimorphos as derived from the DART impact

SD Raducan, M Jutzi, AF Cheng, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract On 26 September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission
successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid …

Mechanical properties of rubble pile asteroids (Dimorphos, Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu) through surface boulder morphological analysis

CQ Robin, A Duchene, N Murdoch, JB Vincent… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Planetary defense efforts rely on estimates of the mechanical properties of asteroids, which
are difficult to constrain accurately from Earth. The mechanical properties of asteroid …

Evidence for multi-fragmentation and mass shedding of boulders on rubble-pile binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos

M Pajola, F Tusberti, A Lucchetti, O Barnouin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation
of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based …

Achievement of the planetary defense investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

NL Chabot, AS Rivkin, AF Cheng… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was the first to
demonstrate asteroid deflection, and the mission's Level 1 requirements guided its planetary …

Effects of impact and target parameters on the results of a kinetic impactor: predictions for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

AM Stickle, ME DeCoster, C Burger… - The planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will impact into the
asteroid Dimorphos on 2022 September 26 as a test of the kinetic impactor technique for …

Planetary defense with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and prospects

AS Rivkin, AF Cheng - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally impacted the
asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, and this kinetic impact changed Dimorphos' …