A spacecraft for a post perihelion encounter with Comet Halley was designed. The GEOS design and hardware are used, subject to detail changes to subsystems. An X band telemetry system provides a bit rate of 40 Kbit/sec (under favorable weather conditions) using a despun, high gain, offset fed antenna. A dust shield protects the spacecraft from damage due to particle impact during encounter, the spin axis being aligned with the relative velocity vector. The spacecraft is suitable for Ariane launch, even if another payload is carried.
Giotto Comet Halley Mission, Phase a Study. Volume 1: Spacecraft Design
1980
125 pages
Report
No indication
English
Unmanned Spacecraft , Astronautics , European space programs , Flyby missions , Halley's comet , Mission planning , Spacecraft design , Ariane launch vehicle , Axes of rotation , Geos satellites (Esa) , Guards (Shields) , High gain , Perihelions , Radio telemetry , Spacecraft antennas , Superhigh frequencies , Foreign technology
British Library Online Contents | 1994
|Giotto observations of the bow shock at Comet Halley
Elsevier | 1986
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