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Space at JPLVarious aspects of space R&D at JPL are reviewed and illustrated with photographs. The career and achievements of interplanetary-spacecraft designer Ronald Draper (beginning with work on Mariner 2 in 1961) are described, with emphasis on the ongoing development of the Galileo Jupiter spacecraft and the proposed Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby spacecraft; the technological challenges posed by the Magellan mission to Venus (scheduled launch in 1989) are examined; and the histories of three mathematical problems with space applications are briefly recalled: the study of conic sections (applicable to orbits and trajectories), the development of formal logic (applicable to expert systems and artificial intelligence), and the restricted three-body problem of celestial mechanics.
Document ID
19870050698
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mclaughlin, William
(California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
April 1, 1987
Publication Information
Publication: Spaceflight
Volume: 29
ISSN: 0038-6340
Subject Category
General
Accession Number
87A37972
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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