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The comet rendezvous asteroid flyby mission (Document No: 19930010071)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Weissman, Paul Neugebauer, Marcia |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission was approved for a New Start by the United States Congress in 1989. CRAF will be developed in parallel with the Cassini (Saturn orbiter/Titan probe) mission. The two missions have been combined into a joint program because of the substantial cost savings (approximately $500 M, or greater than 25 percent) which can be realized by using a common spacecraft design, several identical science instruments, a single management team, and a joint ground operations and data handling system for the two missions. CRAF and Cassini will be the first users of the new Mariner Mark 2 spacecraft which has been designed to carry out the next generation of planetary missions to the outer planets and to small bodies. CRAF is a joint mission between the United States, Germany, and Italy. Each partner will provide both engineering hardware and science experiments. Cassini is a joint mission between the United States, Germany, Italy, and the European Space Agency (ESA), with ESA providing the Titan atmospheric entry probe, called Huygens. |
| File Size | 359840 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930010071 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1tf4qd31 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Cassini Mission Spacecraft Instruments Comet Nuclei Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission Cost Reduction Mariner Mark 2 Spacecraft Mission Planning Spacecraft Design Radio Tracking Remote Sensing Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
