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Mariner spacecraft design and flight, examining configuration differences and mission requirements for Venus and Mars versions
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Mariner spacecraft design and flight, examining configuration differences and mission requirements for Venus and Mars versions
Conceptual design and parametric evaluation of advanced Mariner flyby bus/lander mission to Mars in 1969 and 1971 launch opportunities
In the spring of 1962, engineers from the Engineering Mechanics Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory gave a series of lectures on spacecraft design at the Engineering Design seminars conducted at the California Institute of Technology. Several of these lectures were subsequently given at Stanford University as part of the Space Technology seminar series sponsored by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Presented here are notes taken from these lectures. The lectures were conceived with the intent of providing the audience with a glimpse of the activities of a few mechanical engineers who are involved in designing, building, and testing spacecraft. Engineering courses generally consist of heavily idealized problems in order to allow the more efficient teaching of mathematical technique. Students, therefore, receive a somewhat limited exposure to actual engineering problems, which are typified by more unknowns than equations. For this reason it was considered valuable to demonstrate some of the problems faced by spacecraft designers, the processes used to arrive at solutions, and the interactions between the engineer and the remainder of the organization in which he is constrained to operate. These lecture notes are not so much a compilation of sophisticated techniques of analysis as they are a collection of examples of spacecraft hardware and associated problems. They will be of interest not so much to the experienced spacecraft designer as to those who wonder what part the mechanical engineer plays in an effort such as the exploration of space.
Science and engineering problems of spacecraft engineers
Reliability efforts and test facility developments summarized for Deep Space Instrumentation Facility and Surveyor, Mariner, and Voyager projects
Ground facility instrumentation for Mariner Venus project occultation measurements
Venus Deep Space Station experimental activities and equipment performance and improvements
Optical approach guidance aboard Mariner Mars spacecraft
Mariner S-band turnaround ranging transponder improvement program
Detection of medium intensity solar flares by Mariner V spacecraft
Functional design of Mariner midcourse maneuver operations program
Definition and design study of temperature control flux monitor for Mariner Mars 1969
Design study of temperature control flux monitor for Mariner Mars 1969 spacecraft
Trapped radiation detector developed for Mariner 5 space probe
Mariner 4 space probe absorptivity standard used to measure solar absorptance of temperature control surfaces
Experimental design evaluation of temperature control subsystem for Mariner Mars space probe