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Solar sailing: mission applications and engineering challenges [PDF]
Solar sailing is emerging as a promising form of advanced spacecraft propulsion, which can enable exciting new space-science mission concepts. By exploiting the momentum transported by solar photons, solar sails can perform high-energy orbit transfer ...
McInnes, Colin +3 more
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Lunar and Planetary Science 38 [PDF]
This conference included special sessions on: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: New Ways of Studying the Red Planet; SMART-1; and Volcanism and Tectonism on Saturnian Satellites.
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Validation of numerical codes for impact and explosion cratering: Impacts on strengthless and metal targets [PDF]
18/06/13 MEB. .
Holsapple, KA +27 more
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The state of planetary science in Australia
A head-count of Australia-based scientists doing research in planetary science was performed in the context of the drafting of the Decadal Plan for Space Sciences [1]. This paper builds on those findings.
Caprarelli, G
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Lunar and Planetary Science 30 [PDF]
Special sessions: NEAR at Eros, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Results, Future Planetary Missions, New Views of the Moon: Discrimination of Major Lunar Terranes and Their Origins Using Global and Local Data, and Poster Presentation on Education/Public ...
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Low-cost, multi-agent systems for planetary surface exploration
The use of off-the-shelf consumer electronics combined with top-down design methodologies have made small and inexpensive satellites, such as CubeSats, emerge as viable, low-cost and attractive space-based platforms that enable a range of new and ...
Punzo, Giuliano +4 more
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Lunar and Planetary Science 39
This conference included special sessions on: MESSENGER at Mercury, Results from Kaguya (SELENE) Mission to the Moon, and Lunar Science: Past, Present, and Future.
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Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop : February 27–28 and March 1, 2017, Washington, DC [PDF]
This workshop is meant to provide NASA's Planetary Science Division with a very long-range vision of what planetary science may look like in the future.Organizer, Lunar and Planetary Institute ; Conveners, James Green, NASA Planetary Science Division ...
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The scientific case for renewed human activities on the Moon [PDF]
It is over 30 years since the last human being stood on the lunar surface and this long hiatus in human exploration has been to the detriment of lunar and planetary science. The primary scientific importance of the Moon lies in the record it preserves of
Crawford, Ian
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44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013)
Contains the contents, program, abstracts, and author indexes for the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Special Sessions on: Results from the Mars Science Laboratory, GRAIL Explores the Moon's Interior, Dawn, Vesta, and the HED Connection, and
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