Deep Impact is NASA's eighth Discovery mission. This low-cost, focused planetary science investigation gathered the data necessary to help scientists unlock early secrets of our solar system. The comet encounter with Tempel 1 was a complex event - requiring extremely accurate timing, robustness to an unknown environment, and flight team adaptibility. The mission operations and flight systems performance were spectacular for approach, impact, and lookback imaging on July 4, 2005.


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    Title :

    Deep Impact comet encounter: design, development, and operations of the big event at Tempel 1


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    First Annual Space Systems Engineering Conference ; 2005 ; Atlanta, GA, United States


    Publication date :

    2005-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English