Review of the currently consolidating interest in one or more relatively inexpensive small body exploration missions, and discussion of a proposed ballistic flyby of two asteroids and the periodic comet Forbes, to be launched in 1977. Trajectory data and target encounter conditions are presented for a selected set of missions which are compatible with the propulsion capabilities of a modified Pioneer F & G spacecraft.
Mission strategy for combined comet-asteroid flybys.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and American Astronautical Society, Astrodynamics Conference, Palo Alto
1972-09-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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