Joan-Pau Sanchez, PhD, is a lecturer in space engineering at Cranfield University. He was one of the first to publish a Near Earth Orbit asteroid map. With host Jason Kanigan of the Cold Star Project, Dr. Sanchez discusses:

  • what some of the “new rich families of exploitable orbits which may enable radically new mission applications and services” are
  • his thoughts about the current alarm of “cluttered Earth orbit”, which we are moving towards with the planned launches of tens of thousands of smallsats
  • what the “Traveling Salesperson Problem” is in ADR/servicing satellites
  • how algorithms to solve such problems can be developed without the help of supercomputers
  • his experience with the Comet Interceptor program and working with ESA
  • the uses of his paper, “Optimal Sunshade Configurations for Space-Based Geoengineering near the Sun-Earth L1 Point"
  • the project he lead, also covered by his student Florian Gautier in Episode 50, researching landing cubesats on an asteroid using the ZARM drop tower.

Comet Interceptor program website: https://www.cometinterceptor.space/

Comet Interceptor program Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Interceptor

Interview with Florian Gautier discussing his experience with the ZARM drop tower asteroid landing project: https://coldstarproject.com/yts02e50floriangautier

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