NASA Europa Missions, projects and proposals for the 2020s |
NASA Europa Missions, projects and proposals for the 2020s |
Mar 5 2014, 12:53 AM
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Mar 18 2014, 03:18 AM
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Actually, the concept of a self-navigating Earth-return planetary probe goes back to the late 1950s, when Charles "Doc" Draper (of the MIT Instrumentation Lab) was approached to design an auto-navigation system for a Mars flyby-and-return probe. The concept was a probe that would autonomously navigate itself to a Mars flyby, expose several rolls of film using automated cameras, and come back for an Earth return.
The probe never made it out of an early study stage, but Draper's early work on it evolved into numerous applications of inertial guidance systems. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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