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Evaluation of novel hovering strategies to improve gravity-tractor deflection merits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The gravity-tractor (GT) consists of a spacecraft hovering inertially over a small asteroid. This equilibrium state is achieved by the action of a pair of engines that balance the gravitational acceleration. Due to Newton's ...