This paper describes the Magellan spacecraft designed to collect information from the surface of Venus while orbiting this planet. Special attention is given to the attitude and articulation control of the spacecraft; the command, data, and data storage; the thermal control; and instrumentation. The operations at Venus, which will include Venus orbit insertion and in-orbit checkout and to both routine and nonroutine (at a period when Venus will be in superior conjunction, and the solar plasma will drive Magellan's telecommunications signal-to-noise ratio to a very high value) mapping of the surface, are discussed. Also discussed are operations on earth, carried out by the new Space Flight Operations Control Center.


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    Titel :

    Magellan space flight operations


    Beteiligte:
    Doody, Dave (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.09.1990


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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