Investigation of Allocation Characteristics and Deployment Variants of Ground-Based Missiles for Asteroid Destruction

The paper presents mathematical models and investigation results of three variants of allocation of ground-based missiles for destroying asteroids. These missiles differ from each other by geocentric coordinates of control points, their amount and the probabilities of hitting the asteroid in three ways: hitting the asteroid on the descending parts of the trajectory of motion of special warheads; on ascending or descending parts of trajectories; at varying firing azimuths of the considered means.