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Engineering topics
Barden, B.
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The StarLight mission: a formation-flying stellar interferometer
The StarLight mission is designed to validate the technologies of formation flying and stellar interferometry in space. The mission consists of two spacecraft in an earth-trailing orbit that formation fly over relative ranges of 40 to 600 m to an accuracy of 10 cm.
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IPAO independent cost estimate: StarLight project summary
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Genesis Halo Orbit Station Keeping Design
As the fifth mission of NASA's Directory Program, Genesis is designed to collect solar wind samples for approximately two years in a halo orbit near the Sun-Earth L(sub 1) Lagrange point for return to the Earth.
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Genesis Halo Orbit Station Keeping Design
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Genesis Mission Design
The Genesis spacecraft will collect solar wind samples from a halo orbit about the Sun-Earth L1 point for two years, returning those samples to Earth in 2003 for on-Earth analysis and examination.
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