Gravity Tractor: Slow-Push Asteroid Deflection
Fly a gravity-tractor spacecraft alongside a near-Earth asteroid and deflect it using nothing but its own gravitational pull — tune spacecraft mass, standoff distance, mission duration and warning time and watch the predicted miss distance change live.
Instead of slamming into a near-Earth asteroid, a gravity tractor simply parks a spacecraft nearby and lets its own gravitational pull tug the rock off course over years of continuous, gentle station-keeping. This simulator models the real physics — a = G·msc/d² acceleration imparted for the length of the mission, the resulting Δv, and how much of a miss distance that buys once the asteroid's remaining warning time runs out. Tune spacecraft mass, hover distance, mission duration and total warning time and watch the deflected trajectory pull away from Earth in real time, with the mission graded safe, marginal, or insufficient against a two-Earth-radius safety margin.
Fly a gravity-tractor spacecraft alongside a near-Earth asteroid and deflect it using only its own gravitational pull — tune spacecraft mass, standoff distance, mission duration and warning time and watch the predicted miss distance change live.
3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install