Both Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Odyssey are currently in low altitude, nearly circular and highly inclined orbits about Mars. Thus, they are available adn compartible to serve as relay satellites for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission. Consequently, the MER project developed requirements for MGS to be overhead for MER-A (Spirit) at Gusev crater, at maximum elevation, mudway between lander separation and initial touchdown; in time, this was specified as 01/04/04. 04:24:55 UTC/SCET with a 30 sec tolerance.


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    Title :

    MGS and Odyssey - relay satellites for the MER mission


    Contributors:
    Esposito, Pasquale B. (author) / Bhat, R. (author) / Demeak, S. (author) / Ardalan, S. (author) / Breeden, J. (author) / Helfrich, C. (author) / Jefferson, D. (author) / Stauch, J. (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 2004 ; Providence, RI, United States


    Publication date :

    2004-08-16


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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