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Cometary Explorer to Grigg-Skjellerup 1977The mission analysis and technical summary of the spacecraft and its subsystems are presented for an Explorer flight to investigate the solar wind interaction with the Grigg-Skjellerup coma. The basic spacecraft system is the same as Explorer 43 and 47, and the mission characteristics which distinguish this mission from previous IMP missions are discussed. The physical and chemical characteristics of the comet's nucleus and coma are described, and the spacecraft trajectory and scientific payloads required to study the solar wind-cometary atmospheric interaction are considered.
Document ID
19720025200
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Ness, N. F. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Burlaga, L. F. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Farquhar, R. W. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Donn, B. D. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Jackson, W. M. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Mccarthy, D. K. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
September 2, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 1972
Subject Category
Space Vehicles
Report/Patent Number
NASA-TM-X-66023
X-690-72-337
Report Number: NASA-TM-X-66023
Report Number: X-690-72-337
Accession Number
72N32850
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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