Galilean Satellites and the Galileo Space Mission

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Mar 1996

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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 66, Issue 1, pp.13-20

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in December 1995 to start its two-year mission of exploring the Jovian system, The spacecraft will complete eleven orbits around Jupiter and have ten more close encounters with the outer three Galilean satellites, after the initial close approach to lo on December 7, 1995, Since the lo encounter occurred closer to lo than originally designed, the spacecraft energy change was greater than nominally planned and resulted in an initial spacecraft orbital period about 7 days less than that designed in the nominal tour, A 100-km change in the Io-encounter distance results in an 8-day change in initial period of the spacecraft. Hence the first Ganymede encounter was moved forward one week, and the aim points for the first two Ganymede encounters were altered, but all other encounters would occur on their nominal dates and at the nominal altitudes, This was accomplished without expending spacecraft fuel and resulted in the first Ganymede flyby occurring on June 27, 1996 rather than the nominally scheduled July 4. Earth- and spacecraft-based data were employed in developing ephemerides in support of the Galileo space mission. An analysis of CCD astrometric observations from 1992 1994, of photographic observations from 1967 1993, of mutual event astrometric data from 1973 1991, of Jovian eclipse timing data from 1652-1983, of Doppler data from 1987 1991, and of optical navigation data from the Voyager spacecraft encounter in 1979, produced the satellite ephemerides for the Galileo space mission.

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