The comet rendezvous asteroid flyby mission

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992acm..proc..629w&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991 p 629-632 (SEE N93-19113 06-90)

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Cassini Mission, Comet Nuclei, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission, Cost Reduction, Mission Planning, Mariner Mark 2 Spacecraft, Radio Tracking, Remote Sensing, Spacecraft Design, Spacecraft Instruments

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The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission was approved for a New Start by the United States Congress in 1989. CRAF will be developed in parallel with the Cassini (Saturn orbiter/Titan probe) mission. The two missions have been combined into a joint program because of the substantial cost savings (approximately $500 M, or greater than 25 percent) which can be realized by using a common spacecraft design, several identical science instruments, a single management team, and a joint ground operations and data handling system for the two missions. CRAF and Cassini will be the first users of the new Mariner Mark 2 spacecraft which has been designed to carry out the next generation of planetary missions to the outer planets and to small bodies. CRAF is a joint mission between the United States, Germany, and Italy. Each partner will provide both engineering hardware and science experiments. Cassini is a joint mission between the United States, Germany, Italy, and the European Space Agency (ESA), with ESA providing the Titan atmospheric entry probe, called Huygens.

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