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NASA NTRS · 19730005096

Comet rendezvous mission study

Abstract

Four periodic comets with perihelia between 1980 and 1986 (Encke, d'Arrest, Kipff, and Halley) are used as candidates for the comet rendezvous mission study. All these comet apparitions are especially favorable for rendezvous missions, because of early earth-based comet recovery, good opportunities to view their activity from earth, and reasonable launch vehicle and trajectory requirements for nominal payloads.

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Friedlander, A. L., Wells, W. C.. 1971-10-01. Comet rendezvous mission study. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19730005096

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