A description is given of the navigation of Mariner 9, which included not only precision flight path control but also pointing of the scientific instruments mounted on a two-degree of freedom scan platform. Flight path control involved the determination of the spacecraft trajectory and the design and execution of the propulsive maneuvers required to effect the necessary changes in the trajectory. Radiometric tracking data provided by the Deep Space Network (DSN) were the principal data type used in the orbit determination process. During the Mars approach phase, optical tracking data were also used, but only on an experimental basis.


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    Title :

    Introduction


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    Publication date :

    1973-11-13


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    Miscellaneous


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    English


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