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Posted by: Jim from NSF.com Jan 14 2007, 06:55 PM

Does someone have the ability to provide or know where to get copies of Mission Plan document for past and current JPL missions?

Posted by: monitorlizard Jan 14 2007, 11:32 PM

Some of what you want may be JPL internal documents, which are not generally available to the public. However, I do know that the Cassini Mission Plan, Version N is available from the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer website at: caps.space.swri.edu/caps/tourInfo/Documents/MP_N.pdf

JPL has a search engine for its "externally published" papers and documents at JPL BEACON eSpace, whose web adress is: trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace
I know that there is an MRO mission plan you can access through that site, but I don't know if its the official, full-length mission plan. I look for these types of documents myself, usually with limited success.

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Jan 15 2007, 09:09 PM

QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Jan 14 2007, 08:55 AM)

Does someone have the ability to provide or know where to get copies of Mission Plan document for past and current JPL missions?

Other than requesting them directly from JPL, it's really a hit-or-miss prospect as there are JPL mission plans scattered across the web. For example, http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/pdf/pdf-mgs.html are some documents for MGS. Are there specific ones you're interested in?

Posted by: Jim from NSF.com Jan 16 2007, 01:45 PM

Phoenix, Pathfinder, MCO, MPL, MO, Odyssey. Stardust, Genesis, Dawn, Deep Impact, etc

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Jan 17 2007, 08:59 PM

QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Jan 16 2007, 03:45 AM)

Phoenix, Pathfinder, MCO, MPL, MO, Odyssey. Stardust, Genesis, Dawn, Deep Impact, etc

I have mission plans, data books, etc. for most of these mission but I don't see them on the web. I'm sure you've Googled but all I could really find was an older set (ca. 1997) for MCO/MPL under the rubric of Mars Surveyor 98:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/INTRODUCTION.PDF
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/ORBITER-MP.PDF
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/ORBITER-DATABOOK.PDF
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/LANDER-MP.PDF
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/LANDER-DATABOOK.PDF

Posted by: Jim from NSF.com Jan 22 2007, 08:55 PM

thanx

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Jan 23 2007, 02:09 AM

I found a few mission plan-related documents online for Stardust. Go to this http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/holdings/sdu-a-navcam-2-edr-annefrank-v1.0/dataset.html and scroll down to "Documentation Files."