Dawn: A mission in development for exploration of main belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres

International Astronautical Federation - 55th International Astronautical Congress 2004

Volumn 10, Issue , 2004, Pages 6358-6371

  Rayman, Marc D ^a   Fraschetti, Thomas C ^a   Raymond, Carol A ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; LAUNCHING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM;

CERES; DEEP SPACE MISSIONS; EARTH ORBITING MISSIONS; VESTA;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 34249084259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. See Russell, C. T. et al., "Dawn: A journey in space and time," Planetary and Space Science 52, p. 465 (2004) and references therein.
2. Prettyman, T. H., et al., "Gamma Ray and Neutron Spectrometer for the Dawn Mission to 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 50, p. 1190 (2003).
3. Coradini, A. et al., "VIRTIS: An imaging spectrometer for the Rosetta mission," Planetary and Space Science 46, p. 1291 (1998).
4. Brophy, J. R. et al., "Status of the Dawn Ion Propulsion System," AIAA paper 2004-3433, 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, 11-14 July 2004.
5. Rayman, Marc D., "The Successful Conclusion of the Deep Space 1 Mission: Important Results without a Flashy Title," Space Technology 23, p. 185 (2003).
6. Grasso, Christopher A., "Techniques for Simplifying Operations Using VML (Virtual Machine Language) Sequencing on Mars Odyssey and SIRTF," in Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 8-15 March 2003.
7. Rayman, Marc D. and Steven N. Williams, "Design of the First Interplanetary Solar Electric Propulsion Mission," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 39, p. 589 (2002).
8. Whiffen, Gregory J. and Jon A. Sims, "Application of a Novel Optimal Control Algorithm to Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization," AAS paper 01-209, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA, 27-30 January 2003.
9. Rayman, Marc D., Philip Varghese, David H. Lehman, Leslie L. Livesay, "Results from the Deep Space 1 Technology Validation Mission," Acta Astronautica 47, p. 475 (2000).