Now in Acta Astronautica for April (vol. 241):
Dorrington, S. Olsen, J. Parametric economic modeling of asteroid mining architectures Pg 19 .2025.11.006
Gavira-Aladro, M. Bombardelli, C. Exhaustive search of gravity assist trajectories for rapid reconnaissance and deflection of fictitious asteroid PDC2025 Pg 325 .2025.12.047
Zubko, V. The feasibility of potentially hazardous asteroids flybys using multiple Venus gravity assists Pg 504 .2026.01.016
Velkei, S. Kiss, L. L. Vass, K. et al. Real-time discovery of near-earth objects via accelerated image analysis with Al methods Pg 547 .2026.01.019
Asteroid miners are a bit secretive- can’t have ‘claim jumping’, now. Published research then resorts to placeholders and proxies- hypothetical target bodies and mining methods.
Every other year (most recently last year), a Planetary Defense Conference (PDC) is held. One agenda item is a surprise ‘asteroid’ threat, another hypothetical target. Here, Gavira-Aladro et al. used the fictitious PDC’25 asteroid as a proxy for mission modeling. How would we fly a probe to characterize the incoming threat?
Zubko et al. get even more hypothetical. For hazardous asteroids in general, how can we exploit the substantial and frequent synods of Venus to fly out a probe?
And let’s get even more hypothetical than that. Telescope images aren’t like human snapshots, where what you see is pretty much what you get. Velkei et al. dive deeper into imaging, searching for asteroids via their trailing effect.