Report of the Small Bodies Assessment Group Asteroid Redirect Mission Special Action Team

In January 2014, the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) Robotic Concept Integration Team (RCIT) engaged the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) community by presenting a list of tasks for which input was requested. In response, a SBAG ARM Special Action Team (SAT) was assembled to address the task list items. This report addresses three general aspects of the task list that were requested to support assessments of the ARM robotic mission concepts in the topics of: science, planetary defense, and resource utilization.

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