The Pioneer Venus mission study was conducted for a probe spacecraft and an orbiter spacecraft to be launched by either a Thor/Delta or an Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle. Both spacecraft are spin stabilized. The spin speed is controlled by ground commands to as low as 5 rpm for science instrument scanning on the orbiter and as high as 71 rpm for small probes released from the probe bus. A major objective in the design of the attitude control and mechanism subsystem (ACMS) was to provide, in the interest of costs, maximum commonality of the elements between the probe bus and orbiter spacecraft configurations. This design study was made considering the use of either launch vehicle. The basic functional requirements of the ACMS are derived from spin axis pointing and spin speed control requirements implicit in the acquisition, cruise, encounter and orbital phases of the Pioneer Venus missions. (Author)


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    Title :

    System Design of the Pioneer Venus Spacecraft. Volume 9: Attitude Control/Mechanisms Subsystems Studies


    Contributors:
    A. L. Neil (author)

    Publication date :

    1973


    Size :

    247 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English