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Asteroid Impact Mission Advisory Study

Programme
Discovery
Programme Reference
15/700
Contractor
Observatoire de la Côte d`Azur
Start Date
End Date
Country
France
Description

In this report, we describe the advisory study for both the Asteroid Impact Monitoring (AIM) as a stand-alone European mission and for AIM with its second component, the US Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission under study at NASA by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Keywords
AIM
DART
HERA
Executive summary