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.
Deep Impact comet encounter: design, development, and operations of the big event at Tempel 1
First Annual Space Systems Engineering Conference ; 2005 ; Atlanta, GA, United States
2005-11-01
Conference paper
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English
Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Ephemeris Development for the Deep Impact Mission (AAS 06-178)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
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