Planetary entry probes in the foreseeable future: destinations opportunities, and techniques

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Feb 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004esasp.544..231s&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the International Workshop Planetary Probe Atmospheric Entry and Descent Trajectory Analysis and Science, 6-9

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Planetary Entry Probes

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Planetary atmospheric entry probes fill an important niche in NASA's solar system exploration plans, and current plans indicate they will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. The recently released National Research Council document "New Frontiers in the Solar System: an Integrated Exploration Strategy" and multiple NASA planning documents include calls for future missions specifying entry probes as the technique of choice for achieving many high-priority science objectives. Other missions described in those and similar documents, whose primary science objectives do not require entry probes, could deliver and support entry probes without greatly altering their fundamental architectures. NASA has in place several programs by which such missions could be implemented, each open to non-US participation. Beyond these currently envisioned missions, new techniques can expand the range of potential destinations and operating conditions for entry probes, opening up new opportunities for entry probe science investigations. Missions described in the planning documents are summarized, example new techniques are described, and examples are given of mission destinations enabled by the new techniques.

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