NASA's X2000 Program - An Institutional Approach to Enabling Smaller Spacecraft
NASA has formed the X2000 Program which will provide the basic avionics, power, communications, and software capability for future science missions.
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Salvo, C.
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Deep Space System Technology Program Future Deliveries
NASA is in a period of frequent launches of low cost deep space missions with challenging performance needs.
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Deep Space Systems Technology Program Future Deliveries
NASA is in a period of frequent launches of low cost deep space missions with challenging performance needs. The modest budgets of these missions make it impossible for each to develop its own technology, therefore, efficient and effective development and insertion of technology for these missions must be approached at a higher level that has been done in the past.
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Pluto Mission Development Status
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Pluto Fast Flyby: An Overview of the Mission and Spacecraft Design, Advanced Technology Insertion Efforts, and Student Involvement Opportunities
In an effort to complete the initial reconnanissance of our solar system, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is designing a mission to send two very small spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moon, Charon.
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