Asteroid retrieval missions have recently attracted increasing interest from the community and could provide opportunities for scienti c exploration, resource utilisation and even the development of planetary defence ...

Recent advancements in CubeSat technology unfold new mission ideas and the possibility to lower the cost of space exploration. Exploiting the natural dynamics around the Sun-Earth barycentric Lagrange points, minimal-ΔV ...

Recent advancements in CubeSat technology unfold new mission ideas and the opportunity to lower the cost of space exploration. Ground operations costs for interplanetary CubeSats, however, still represent a challenge toward ...

In response to the current interest in CubeSats and potential applications for planetary exploration, this work studies the feasibility of using autonomous CubeSats to flyby near-Earth asteroids. Considering the limited ...