NDLI: Clementine in retrospect

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Horan, D.M.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Naval Center for Space Technol., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA (Horan, D.M.)
Abstract	Clementine was a joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission launched in January 1994. Its primary purpose was to test space hardware developed for the DoD. Its secondary goal was to collect data of scientific value for NASA by imaging the Moon in multiple, narrow visible and infrared passbands from lunar orbit and the asteroid 1620 Geographos during a close fly by. The images of Geographos were not obtained, but the lunar data provided by Clementine far exceeded everyone's expectations in both quality and quantity. Some reasons why Clementine could be considered faster, better, and cheaper are inherent to the Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST), the space technology group at the Naval Research Laboratory. The major innovation of this type was the close teamwork established, by design, between the NASA Science Team and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) operations team. The high quality and utility of the lunar data are a direct result of the good working relationship between these two groups-which really became a single group. This cooperation allowed the Clementine team to go from recognition after several weeks in lunar orbit that some craters in the Moon's south polar region could be in permanent shade to conducting several days later the bistatic radar probing of the Moon's polar regions which resulted in data showing that water could be present on the Moon.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	95
File Size	1005067
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780343115
ISSN	1095323X
DOI	10.1109/AERO.1998.685780
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-03-28
Publisher Place	Colorado
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Moon NASA Space technology Laboratories Testing Hardware Optical imaging Infrared imaging Passband Technological innovation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Aerospace Engineering Space and Planetary Science

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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