Navigation for NEAR Shoemaker: the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid

B. G. Williams, Peter G. Antreasian, J. J. Bordi, E. Carranza, Robert E. Chesley, C. E. Helfrich, James Miller, W. M. Owen, T. C. Wang

NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 2001 · 11 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This paper describes the navigation strategy and results for the rendezvous and orbit phases of the NEAR mission.