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Deep Impact Comet Encounter: Design, Development and Operation of the Big Event at Tempel 1
Deep Impact Comet Encounter: Design, Development and Operation of the Big Event at Tempel 1
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Rocca, Jennifer
Wissler, Steven
Kubitschek, Daniel G.
Wissler, Steven
Kubitschek, Daniel G.
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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
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AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee ; AIAA Space Transportation Systems Technical Committee ; Space Technology Advanced Research Center
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2005-11-10
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