Asteroid capture mission (Atlas-5 launch)

• Asteroid capture mission (Atlas-5 launch) by Phillip Clark on 12 Oct, 2014 12:56
• I am hoping that I am not duplicating a thread elsewhere on this site ........
  
  The second flight of the SLS is supposed to put a piloted Orion into selenocentric orbit in 2021 or soon thereafter where it will rendezvous with a small captured asteroid.
  
  From what I have read the asteroid capture spacecraft is supposed to be launched on an Atlas-5 in 2015 but I cannot see anything obvious in the Atlas-5 manifest.
  
  I would have expected a lot more hard facts online by now if the capture spacecraft was scheduled for launch within the next year or two ........
  
  
• #1 by Jim on 12 Oct, 2014 13:17
• Quote from: Phillip Clark on 12 Oct, 2014 12:56

  I am hoping that I am not duplicating a thread elsewhere on this site ........
  
  The second flight of the SLS is supposed to put a piloted Orion into selenocentric orbit in 2021 or soon thereafter where it will rendezvous with a small captured asteroid.
  
  From what I have read the asteroid capture spacecraft is supposed to be launched on an Atlas-5 in 2015 but I cannot see anything obvious in the Atlas-5 manifest.
  
  I would have expected a lot more hard facts online by now if the capture spacecraft was scheduled for launch within the next year or two ........
  

  
  No such mission has been started for Atlas V
• #2 by Phillip Clark on 12 Oct, 2014 13:58
• Thank you Jim!   That means a lot of online information is way, way out of date!
• #3 by MP99 on 13 Oct, 2014 08:35
• Jeff Foust (jeff_foust):
  Gates: current thinking is that crewed mission to asteroid would be EM-3 or -4 (not EM-2, the 1st crewed SLS/Orion mission).
  
  http://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/362644534468939776
  
  
  
  Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) tweeted at 9:12 PM on Tue, Jul 09, 2013:
  Lee: earliest reasonable launch date for robotic asteroid redirect spacecraft is 2019, "and that would be a big push" #targetneo2
  (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/354694599844958209)
  
  
  
  Jeff Foust (jeff_foust):
  Gerst: EM-2 (first crewed SLS/Orion) mission will not stay on the ground if ARM asteroid is not there by 2021. [and it likely won't]
  
  http://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/456461227439706112
  
  
  
  I'm sure I remember a Gerst quote that the target won't be available to visit until at least 2024, but struggling to find that at the moment.
  
  See also http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31758.300
  
  Cheers, Martin
• #4 by ZachS09 on 14 Oct, 2014 23:50
• Isn't this "asteroid capture" mission, which is to be launched on an Atlas V, the OSIRIS-REx flight planned for 2016?
• #5 by Kryten on 15 Oct, 2014 00:06
•  Completely different. O-R is to return samples of asteroid material to the earth's surface, the proposed asteroid capture is to move an entire (very small) asteroid into earth orbit.