Alternative strategies for ballistic missions to Halley's comet in 1985-86 are described. It is shown that a large science return would be acquired from a ballistic Halley intercept in spite of the high flyby speeds of almost 60 km/sec that are associated with this mission mode. The possibility of retargeting the cometary spacecraft to additional comets after the Halley intercept also exists. In one scenario two cometary spacecraft of identical design would be used to carry out four separate cometary encounters over a three-year period. One spacecraft would intercept Halley before its perihelion passage in December 1985 and then go on to comet Borrelly witn an encounter in January 1988. The other spacecraft would be targeted for a post-perihelion Halley intercept in March 1986 before proceeding towards an encounter with comet Tempel-2 in September 1988. The flyby speeds for the Borrelly and Tempel-2 intercepts are 21 and 13 km/sec, respectively.


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    Titel :

    Opportunities for Ballistic Missions to Halley's Comet


    Beteiligte:
    R. W. Farquhar (Autor:in) / W. H. Wooden (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1977


    Format / Umfang :

    44 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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