This project was part of an international program under which the chemical composition of cometary dust particles was to be measured 'in situ' during a rendezvous and flyby mission of a Mariner Mark 2 space probe and a comet (depending on the time of launch). Two necessary tasks, preliminary hardware development and interface definition, have been completed within the projects submitted for approval. As a result a model close to the flight configuration has been created, which was to be made available to the flight hardware contractor and his purposes. The Comet Rendezvous and Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission was abandoned after joint resolution adopted by NASA and the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology in 1992. Since an instrument like CoMA is an important contribution both to future cometary rendezvous missions, such as ROSETTA, as well as for accompanying laboratory activities, this project was terminated in a 'qualified conclusion'. In the process, components suitable for the laboratory developed from the preliminary units were produced and put into operation.


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    Title :

    Cometary Matter Analyser (COMA/CRAF)


    Contributors:
    Buechler, K. (author) / Igenbergs, E. (author) / Klein, J. W. (author) / Krueger, F. R. (author) / Kuczera, H. (author) / Morfill, G. (author) / Palme, H. (author) / Roessler, K. (author) / Weishaupt, U. (author) / Zerrull, R. (author)

    Publication date :

    1994-02-28


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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