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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)has established the New Millenium Program (NMP), a science-driven technology-validation program that is designed to accelerate the avaliability of technology needed for NASA's science missions of the 21st century.
Space exploration in the next century will be much more expensive and costs to do many tasks will be much smaller. These advances will come largely from a revolution in technology springing from the New Millennium Program. These new technologies will include greater processing and autonomy in spacecraft, miniaturized instruments and communications, electric propulsion, more powerful nonnuclear space power. These and other technologies will allow use of much smaller 'smallsats' for remote sensing.
A Mariner Jupiter/Saturn mission has been planned for 1977. System reliability questions are discussed, taking into account the actual and design lifetime, causes of mission termination, in-flight failures and their consequences for the mission, and the use of redundancy to avoid failures. The design process employed optimizes the use of proven subsystem and system designs and then makes the necessary improvements to increase the lifetime as required.
Interface design between a probe and a spacecraft requires not only technical considerations but also management planning and mission analysis interactions. Two further aspects of importance are the flyby versus the probe trade-off, and the relay link design and data handling optimization.
Mars landing analysis and simulation for unmanned lander prototype, discussing digital simulation by Monte Carlo techniques and physical tests
Design of interface between Mariner Mars spacecraft and Mars planetary entry/landing capsule
Mars planetary entry and landing model tests, demonstrating technological feasibility of mission
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