FISO: Summary of workshop on asteroid redirect mission

The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pptx) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Target NEO2: Workshop Summary and Next Steps – Rich Dissly , Ball Aerospace – August 28, 2013

This is quite an interesting overview and summary of the Target NEO workshop held back in July on the proposed NASA mission to move a small asteroid to the Earth-Moon system using an unmanned spacecraft and then do close-up examinations with astronaut missions to it. You can find the individual presentation files here and the executive summary here.

Note that the program is referred in some places as ARRM (Asteroid Robotic Redirect Mission) and other places as ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission).

There is a lot of discussion about improving the search for Goldilocks objects, e.g.:

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There’s probably a good amount of sci-fi in it but I like this multi-dimensional graph from NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier illustrating the various technological capabilities needed for a Mars crew mission and where asteroid missions and ISS activities contribute to those capabilities:

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Finding an ideal asteroid target is very difficult and may take longer than the current mission time scale allows:

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2 thoughts on “FISO: Summary of workshop on asteroid redirect mission”

  1. Clark, the link you provided to the website “Future-In-Space Operations (FISO)” is to a site that has been corrupted or taken over by a spammer – there is no content for FISO. Not your fault of course.

  2. Thanks! I’ve directed it to their Space Review article as they do on the archive page.

    Surprised they let that domain expire. They had the FISO site for many years.

    Gee, means all the FISO items I’ve posted now are linked to the stupid spam site…

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