Results of mission and trajectory design for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar are presented. Because of the application of the aerobraking technique, for the first time to a planetary mission, the conventional mission design criteria in the selection of the launch/arrival dates must be modified and new mission constraints must be imposed. Venus itself poses an interesting aspect in trajectory design for an orbiting spacecraft due to its dense lower atmosphere and its slow retrograde rotation. Some recent results in the method of averaging applied to an orbiting spacecraft about this unique planet are given.


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    Title :

    Mission and trajectory design for the Venus orbiting imaging radar


    Contributors:
    Kwok, J. H. (author)


    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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