Mariner Mission to Venus
by Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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About this eBook
- Author
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Project Mariner (U.S.)
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54585
- Release Date
- April 21, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MARINER MISSION TO VENUS — MARINER MISSION TO VENUS — FOREWORD — CONTENTS — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 2.CHAPTER 1 VENUS — THE DOUBLE STAR OF THE ANCIENT WORLD — THE CONSENSUS PRIOR TO MARINER II — THE CYTHEREAN RIDDLE: LIVING WORLD OR INCINERATED PLANET
- 3.CHAPTER 2 PREPARING FOR SPACE — A PROBLEM IN CELESTIAL DYNAMICS — THE ORGANIZATION — NASA: FOR SCIENCE — JPL: JATO TO MARINER — GENERAL DYNAMICS: THE ATLAS — LOCKHEED: AGENA B
- 4.CHAPTER 3 THE SPACECRAFT — THE SPACEFRAME — THE POWER SYSTEM — CC&S: THE BRAIN AND THE STOPWATCH — TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RELAYING THE DATA — ATTITUDE CONTROL: BALANCING IN SPACE — PROPULSION SYSTEM — TEMPERATURE CONTROL — THE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
- 5.CHAPTER 4 THE LAUNCH VEHICLE — THE ATLAS BOOSTER: POWER OF SIX 707’S — THE AGENA B: START AND RESTART
- 6.CHAPTER 5 FLIGHT INTO SPACE — MARINER I: AN ABORTIVE LAUNCH — MARINER II: A ROLL BEFORE PARKING — THE PARKING ORBIT — ORIENTATION AND MIDCOURSE MANEUVER — THE LONG CRUISE — ENCOUNTER AND BEYOND — THE RECORD OF MARINER
- 7.CHAPTER 6 THE TRACKING NETWORK — DEEP SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FACILITY — Table 1. Deep Space Instrumentation Facility Stations — THE GOLDSTONE COMPLEX — THE WOOMERA STATION — THE JOHANNESBURG STATION — MOBILE TRACKING STATION
- 8.CHAPTER 7 THIRTEEN MILLION WORDS — COMMUNICATION CONTROL — THE OPERATIONS CENTER — CENTRAL COMPUTING FACILITY
- 9.CHAPTER 8 THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS — Table 2. Mariner Experiments — DATA CONDITIONING SYSTEM — COSMIC DUST DETECTOR — SOLAR PLASMA EXPERIMENT — HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION EXPERIMENT — THE MAGNETOMETER — MICROWAVE RADIOMETER — INFRARED RADIOMETER — MARINER’S SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
- 10.CHAPTER 9 THE LEGACY OF MARINER — SPACE WITHOUT DUST? — THE UBIQUITOUS SOLAR WIND — HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLES: FATAL DOSAGE? — A MAGNETIC FIELD? — THE SURFACE: HOW HOT? — CLOUD TEMPERATURES: THE INFRARED READINGS — THE RADAR PROFILE: MEASUREMENTS FROM EARTH
- 11.CHAPTER 10 THE NEW LOOK OF VENUS
- 12.APPENDIX SUBCONTRACTORS
- 13.FOOTNOTES
- 14.INDEX
- 15.Transcriber’s Notes
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