Successful planetary exploration missions have been completed by unmanned Mariner spacecraft, which were designed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner II completed a 109-day flyby mission to Venus on December 14, 1962. This mission was followed by the flyby of Mars and return of 21 historic photographs of its surface by Mariner IV in July 1965. Further successful missions followed: Mariner V to Venus in 1967, Mariners VI and VII to Mars in 1969. In all of these missions, a Central Computer and Sequencer onboard the spacecraft was used to provide on-board control functions, although complete ground backup was also available.


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    Title :

    The Star Computer: A Self-Testing-and- Repairing Computer for Spacecraft Guidance, Control, and Automatic Maintenance


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    10th Meeting of the Guidance and Control Panel of AGAR ; 1970 ; London, GB



    Publication date :

    1970-11-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :