Author: C.T. Russell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401152004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Even before the present Administrator of NASA, Daniel Goldin, made the phrase 'better, faster, cheaper' the slogan of at least the Office of Space Science, that same office under the Associate Administrator of Lennard Fisk and its Division of Solar System Exploration under the direction of Wes Huntress had begun a series of planetary spacecraft whose developmental cost, phase CID in the parlance of the trade, was to be held to under $150M. In order to get the program underway rapidly they chose two missions without the open solicitation now the hallmark of the program. One of these two missions, JPL' s Mars Pathfinder, was to be a technology demonstration mission with little immediate science return that would enable later high priority science missions to Mars. Many of the science investigations that were included had significant foreign contributions to keep NASA's cost of the mission within the Discovery budget. The second of these missions and the first to be launched was the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, or NEAR, awarded to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. This mission was quite different than Mars Pathfinder, being taken from the list of high priority objectives of the science community and emphasizing the science return and not the technology development of the mission. This mission was also to prove to be well under the $150M phase CID cap.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
Author: C.T. Russell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401152004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Even before the present Administrator of NASA, Daniel Goldin, made the phrase 'better, faster, cheaper' the slogan of at least the Office of Space Science, that same office under the Associate Administrator of Lennard Fisk and its Division of Solar System Exploration under the direction of Wes Huntress had begun a series of planetary spacecraft whose developmental cost, phase CID in the parlance of the trade, was to be held to under $150M. In order to get the program underway rapidly they chose two missions without the open solicitation now the hallmark of the program. One of these two missions, JPL' s Mars Pathfinder, was to be a technology demonstration mission with little immediate science return that would enable later high priority science missions to Mars. Many of the science investigations that were included had significant foreign contributions to keep NASA's cost of the mission within the Discovery budget. The second of these missions and the first to be launched was the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, or NEAR, awarded to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. This mission was quite different than Mars Pathfinder, being taken from the list of high priority objectives of the science community and emphasizing the science return and not the technology development of the mission. This mission was also to prove to be well under the $150M phase CID cap.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401152004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Even before the present Administrator of NASA, Daniel Goldin, made the phrase 'better, faster, cheaper' the slogan of at least the Office of Space Science, that same office under the Associate Administrator of Lennard Fisk and its Division of Solar System Exploration under the direction of Wes Huntress had begun a series of planetary spacecraft whose developmental cost, phase CID in the parlance of the trade, was to be held to under $150M. In order to get the program underway rapidly they chose two missions without the open solicitation now the hallmark of the program. One of these two missions, JPL' s Mars Pathfinder, was to be a technology demonstration mission with little immediate science return that would enable later high priority science missions to Mars. Many of the science investigations that were included had significant foreign contributions to keep NASA's cost of the mission within the Discovery budget. The second of these missions and the first to be launched was the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, or NEAR, awarded to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. This mission was quite different than Mars Pathfinder, being taken from the list of high priority objectives of the science community and emphasizing the science return and not the technology development of the mission. This mission was also to prove to be well under the $150M phase CID cap.
Asteroid Rendezvous
Author: Jim Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521813600
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
An account of NASA's dramatic NEAR mission to the asteroid Eros by scientists involved.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521813600
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
An account of NASA's dramatic NEAR mission to the asteroid Eros by scientists involved.
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
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Launched from Cape Canaveral in 1996 the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is intended to orbit EROS, a large asteroid and send back to earth information and data about the history of our solar system.
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
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Launched from Cape Canaveral in 1996 the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is intended to orbit EROS, a large asteroid and send back to earth information and data about the history of our solar system.
Low-cost Innovation in Spaceflight
Author: Howard E. McCurdy
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
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Category : Eros (Asteroid)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Eros (Asteroid)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Spacecraft
Author: E. L. Reynolds
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Languages : en
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Special Issue on the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
Author: Robert W. Farquhar
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Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Workshop, April and June 1985
Author: Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Science Working Group
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Near-earth Asteroid Rendezvous Project
Author: A. G. Santo
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Languages : en
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Pre-launch Mission Operation Report
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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