The MESSENGER mission to Mercury: Spacecraft and mission design

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 49, Issue 14-15, 2001, Pages 1481-1500

  Santo, Andrew G ^a   Gold, Robert E ^a   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^b   Ercol, Carl J ^a   Farquhar, Robert W ^a   Hartka, Theodore J ^a   Jenkins, Jason E ^a   McAdams, James V ^a   Mosher, Larry E ^a   Persons, David F ^a   Artis, David A ^a   Bokulic, Robert S ^a   Conde, Richard F ^a   Dakermanji, George ^a   Goss Jr , Milton E ^a   Haley, David R ^a   Heeres, Kenneth J ^a   Maurer, Richard H ^a   Moore, Robert C ^a   Rodberg, Elliot H ^a   Stern, Theodore G ^c   Wiley, Samuel R ^d   Williams, Bobby G ^e   Yen, Chen Wan L ^e   Peterson, Max R ^a   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d AEROJET ROCKETDYNE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 14344283009     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(01)00087-3     Document Type: Article

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