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Deep Impact Extended Mission Challenges for the Validation and Verification Test ProgramThe Deep Impact Spacecraft was launched on January 12, 2005 as part of NASA's Discovery Program as a radical mission to excavate the interior of a comet. The Spacecraft consisted of two separate entities known as the Flyby and the Impactor, which were commanded to separate prior to comet rendezvous with comet 9P/Tempel 1. The overall mission was deemed a success on July 4, 2005, as the 370-kg Impactor collided with the comet at 10.2 km/s. This event was captured using the camera and infrared spectrometer on the Flyby spacecraft, along with ground-based observatories. Since this event, the Flyby spacecraft has been in hibernation mode and has received only a small amount of maintenance. The Deep Impact Program was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), led by Dr. Michael A'Hearn from the University of Maryland in College Park, and built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado.
Document ID
20150014728
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Montanez, Leticia
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Holshouser, David
(Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. Boulder, CO, United States)
Date Acquired
August 3, 2015
Publication Date
May 12, 2008
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Meeting Information
Meeting: SpaceOps 2008
Location: Heidelberg
Country: Germany
Start Date: May 12, 2008
End Date: May 16, 2008
Sponsors: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, European Space Agency, American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Test Bench
EPOXI

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