SmallSat swarm gravimetry: Revealing the interior structure of asteroids and comets

Abstract A growing interest in small body exploration has motivated research into the rapid characterization of near-Earth objects to meet economic or scientific objectives. Specifically, knowledge internal density structure can aid with target selection and enables an understanding prehistoric planetary formation be developed. To this end, multi-layer extensions polyhedral gravity model are suggested, inversion technique is implemented present their effectiveness. On-orbit gradiometry simulated employed stochastic deterministic algorithms, results that imply robustness both cases.