Asteroid impacts can cause a wide range of damage through multiple potential hazards, from localized blast waves or thermal radiation, to tsunami inundation, to global climatic effects. The level of risk posed by these hazards depends not only upon their extent and severity, but also upon the likeli...

Planetary defense is an emerging field among the aerospace community. As the rate of near-Earth object (NEO) discoveries increases, so too does the probability that we will discover a NEO on a collision course with Earth. This paper documents a planetary defense mission campaign design to defend aga...

The neutral beam for asteroid control (NBAC) technology is a globally neutral plasma thruster that seeks to fill the operational gap between high impulse and slow push asteroid deflection methods. Additionally, NBAC can be used to modify both the spin state and trajectory of an asteroid. In this wor...