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Peralta, F.

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Cassini 1997 VVEJGA Trajectory Launch/Arrival Space Analysis

The baseline trajectory for the Cassini mission to Saturn is an Oct. 1997 VVEJGA (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter-Gravity-Assist) trajectory. The current choice for an arrival date, June 25, 2004, provides a rare Phoebe flyby opportunity. The goal of this analysis is to determine the optimal feasible trajectory for any launch/arrival date combination.

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Cassini Trajectory Design Description

The Cassini spaecraft will be the first one to visit the Saturnian system in more than two decades after the unprecedented flybys of the Voyager spacecraft in 1980 and 1981.

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