This mission will provide a broad-based fast reconnaissance of comet Encke, building a data base for subsequent more detailed comet investigations, including rendezvous. After a 3 month flight, the spacecraft will encounter the comet at a nominal range of about 500 km. Flyby velocity will be 7 to 28 km/sec depending on choice of arrival data (0 to 35 days before Encke perihelion) and launch vehicle. The spacecraft will be similar to the MVM 73 spacecraft, with scan platform and 117 kbps encounter data rate, and designed to survive the thermal environment of 0.34 to 0.8 AU. (Author)


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    Title :

    Requirements and Capabilities for Planetary Missions: Mariner Encke Ballistic Flyby 1980


    Contributors:
    G. G. Ball (author) / T. H. Bird (author)

    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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