The concept used in the design of the Mariner Mark II (MMII) spacecraft is consistent with the solar system exploration strategies which were developed by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The missions to comets, main belt asteroids, and outer planets are sufficiently similar to make possible a use of almost all of the design, hardware, and software in most engineering subsystems, without significant modification, for subsequent missions. Mariner Mark II missions are discussed, taking into account a comet rendezvous with asteroid flyby, the Saturn Flyby/Titan Probe, the Cassini or Saturn Orbiter/Titan Probe, the Main Belt Asteroid Rendezvous mission, the Uranus Flyby/Uranus Probe mission, and the Neptune Flyby/Neptune Probe mission.


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    Title :

    The Mariner Mark II progream


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1984-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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