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☄️ Asteroid Slalom: Closest Approach and Delta-v Budget

Fly a survey probe through a drifting rock field with Newtonian thrusters: live closest-approach prediction, minimum avoidance delta-v and the Tsiolkovsky rocket-equation fuel budget, with measured-vs-theory experiments.

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⚙ Under the hood

Fly a thruster-driven survey probe through a drifting rock field: every rock's time and distance of closest approach is predicted from relative motion, the cheapest avoidance burn is planned, and each burn is paid for with propellant via the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. Experiments measure dodge delta-v against the finite-burn formula, the engine against the rocket equation, and the minimum warning time of chemical, cold-gas and ion engines.

closest approachdelta-vTsiolkovsky rocket equationcollision avoidancethrusters

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