The mission analysis and technical summary of the spacecraft and its subsystems are presented for an Explorer flight to investigate the solar wind interaction with the Grigg-Skjellerup coma. The basic spacecraft system is the same as Explorer 43 and 47, and the mission characteristics which distinguish this mission from previous IMP missions are discussed. The physical and chemical characteristics of the comet's nucleus and coma are described, and the spacecraft trajectory and scientific payloads required to study the solar wind-cometary atmospheric interaction are considered.
Cometary Explorer to Grigg-Skjellerup 1977
1972
63 pages
Report
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English
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