| Title: | Deep Impact Comet Encounter: Design, Development and Operation of the Big Event at Tempel 1 |
| Author: | Rocca, Jennifer ; Wissler, Steven ; Kubitschek, Daniel G. |
| Abstract: | Deep Impact Comet Encounter was a mission to crash the Impactor spacecraft and its Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS) into Comet Tempel 1 and record the event via a Flyby spacecraft. The Deep Impact spacecrafts, Flyby and Impactor, were launched together aboard a Delta II rocket from Kennedy Space Flight Center on January 12, 2005. Impactor ended its almost six-month mission by successfully transmitting back images of the comet as it plowed into the surface of Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Flyby successfully transmitted back the first image of the Impactor’s collision with Tempel 1 via its High Resolution Imager (HRI), the largest telescope ever to be deployed into deep space |
| Description: | This conference features the work of authors from: Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Lab, Aerospace Systems Design Lab, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center; and other aerospace industry and academic institutions |
| Type: | Presentation |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8032 |
| Date: | 2005-11-10 |
| Contributor: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab |
| Relation: | SSEC05 Session C;GT-SSEC.C.2 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Cometary impacts
Cometary properties Deep Impact Comet Encounter Flyby spacecraft High rate imaging High Resolution Imager Impactor spacecraft Impactor Targeting Sensor Telemetry |
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